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Paul and Pseudepigraphy Pauline Studies Series editor Stanley E. Porter Professor of New Testament at McMaster Divinity College Hamilton, Ontario VOLUME 8 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/past Paul and Pseudepigraphy Edited by Stanley E. Porter and Gregory P. Fewster LEIDEN • bOSTON 2013 This publication has been typeset in the multilingual “Brill” typeface. With over 5,100 characters covering Latin, IPA, Greek, and Cyrillic, this typeface is especially suitable for use in the humanities. For more information, please see www.brill.com/brill-typeface. ISSN 1572-4913 ISBN 978-90-04-25668-2 (hardback) ISBN 978-90-04-25847-1 (e-book) Copyright 2013 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Global Oriental, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers and Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. All rights reserved. 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CONTENTS List of Figures and Tables ............................................................................ vii Abbreviations ................................................................................................... ix Preface ................................................................................................................ xiii On Pauline Pseudepigraphy: An Introduction ..................................... 1 Stanley E. Porter and Gregory P. Fewster I. CRITICAL ISSUES IN PAULINE PSEUDEPIGRAPHY Authorship and Pseudepigraphy in Early Christian Literature: A Translation of the Most Important Source Texts and an Annotated Bibliography ........................................................................... 11 Armin D. Baum Pauline Chronology and the Question of Pseudonymity of the Pastoral Epistles ......................................................................................... 65 Stanley E. Porter Hermeneutical Issues in Canonical Pseudepigrapha: The Head/Body Motif in the Pauline Corpus as a Test Case ....... 89 Gregory P. Fewster Style and Pseudonymity in Pauline Scholarship: A Register Based Configuration ............................................................. 113 Andrew W. Pitts The Problem of the Pastoral Epistles: An Important Hypothesis Reconsidered ............................................................................................... 153 Jermo van Nes II. PAULINE PSEUDEPIGRAPHY WITHIN THE CHRISTIAN CANON A Deutero-Pauline Mystery? Ecclesiology in Colossians and Ephesians ...................................................................................................... 173 Sigurd Grindheim vi contents The Imitation Hypothesis: Pseudepigraphic Remarks on 2 Thessalonians with Help from Documentary Papyri .................. 197 Christina M. Kreinecker Christology, Greco-Roman Religious Piety, and the Pseudonymity of the Pastoral Letters .............................................................................. 221 Linda L. Belleville Hebrews as an Instructional Appendix to Romans ............................. 245 Clare K. Rothschild The Epistolary Closing of Hebrews and Pauline Imitation ............... 269 Bryan R. Dyer III. PAULINE PSEUDEPIGRAPHY OUTSIDE THE CHRISTIAN CANON Dusting Off a Pseudo-Historical Letter: Re-Thinking the Epistolary Aspects of the Apocryphal Epistle to the Laodiceans .................... 289 Philip L. Tite The Pseudepigraphical Correspondence between Seneca and Paul: A Reassessment .......................................................................................... 319 Ilaria L. E. Ramelli The Heretics’ Apostle and Two Pauline Pseudepigrapha from Nag Hammadi ............................................................................................. 337 Michael Kaler Index of Ancient Sources ............................................................................. 353 Index of Modern Authors ............................................................................. 368 LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES Figures Andrew W. Pitts 1 Levels of social variation: The temporal and contextual axis .... 124 2 Comparative register profile landscape with formal situational parameters .................................................................................................. 128 3 A register profile landscape for the Pauline corpus ...................... 136 4 Variation configuration graph according to co-textual and contextual dimensions within the tenor metafunction of the Pauline corpus ........................................................................................... 139 5 The density of Paul’s favored conjunctions in the prison letters ............................................................................................................ 142 6 Co-textual variation in φιλο—Initial words and α-privatives tracking with contextual variation ...................................................... 146 7 Conjunction usage in the Pastorals .................................................... 150 Tables Philip L. Tite 1 Parallel paraenetic elements ................................................................. 304 ABBREVIATIONS AB Anchor Bible AnBib Analecta Biblica ANRW Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt ANTC Abingdon New Testament Commentaries ATR Anglican Theological Review BBR Bulletin for Biblical Research BECNT Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament BETL Bibliotheca Ephemeridum theologicarum Lovaniensium Bib Biblica BIS Biblical Interpretation Series BJRL Bulletin of the John Rylands Library BN Biblische Notizen BNTC Black’s New Testament Commentaries BT The Bible Translator BTB Biblical Theology Bulletin BZNW Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche CbNT Commentaire biblique: Nouveau Testament CBQ The Catholic Biblical Quarterly CNT Commentaar op het Nieuwe Testament EBib Études Bibliques ECC Eerdmans Critical EKK Evangelisch Katholischer Kommentar ESCJ Studies in Early Christianity and Judaism/Études sur le chris- tianisme et le judaïsme EvQ Evangelical Quarterly ExpTim Expository Times GRRS Graeco-Roman Religion Series HBS Herders Biblische Studien Herm Hermathena HTKNT Herders theologischer Kommentar zum Nuen Testament HTR Harvard Theological Review HTS Harvard Theological Studies HUT Hermeneutische Untersuchungen zur Theologie IBS Irish Biblical Studies x abbreviations ICC International Critical Commentary InvLuc Invigilata Lucernis JAC Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum JBL Journal of Biblical Literature JECS Journal of Early Christian Studies JETh Jahrbuch für Evangelikale Theologie JSJSup Supplement to the Journal for the Study of Judaism JSNT Journal for the Study of the New Testament JSNTSup Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series JSOT Journal for the Study of the Old Testament JSP Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha JTS Journal of Theological Studies LCL Loeb Classical Library LLC Literary and Linguistic Computing LNTS Library of New Testament Studies MJTM McMaster Journal of Theology and Ministry MNTC Moffatt New Testament Commentaries Neot Neotestamentica NIB The New Interpreter’s Bible NIGTC New International Greek Text Commentary NovT Novum Testamentum NTL New Testament Library NTM New Testament Monographs NTOA/StUNT Novum Testamentum Et Orbis Antiquus/Studien zur Umwelt des Neuen Testaments NTS New Testament Studies PAST Pauline Studies PNTC Pillar New Testament Commentaries PVTG Pseudepigrapha Veteris Testamenti Graece RB Revue Biblique ResQ Restoration Quarterly RGG Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart RIL Rendiconti dell’Istituto Lombardo RNT Regensburger Neues Testament RSI Rivista Strocia Italiana RST Regensburger Studien zur Theologie RTR Reformed Theological Review SAPERE Scripta Antiquitatis Posterioris ad Ethicam Religion- emque Pertinentia abbreviations xi SB Sources Bibliques SBL.TT Society of Biblical Literature Texts and Translations Series SBS Stuttgarter Bibelstudien SJT Scottish Journal of Theology SNTSMS Society of New Testament Studies Monograph Series SNTU Studien zum Neuen Testament und seiner Umwelt StBL Studies in Biblical Literature TENT Texts and Editions for New Testament Study Th Theology THKNT Theologischer Handkommentar zum Neuen Testament TLZ Theologische Literaturzeitung TNTC Tyndale New Testament Commentaries TQ Theologische Quartalschrift TRE Theologische Realenzyklopädie TrinJ Trinity Journal TynBul Tyndale Bulletin VetChr Vetera Christianorum WBC Word Biblical Commentary WUNT Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament ZNT Zeitschrift für Neues Testament ZNW Zeitschrift für die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche PREFACE This eighth volume in the series, Pauline Studies, is on Paul and pseude- pigraphy—in general, within the New Testament, and outside the New Testament. The seven previous volumes are: The Pauline Canon, ed. Stanley E. Porter (PAST 1; Leiden: Brill, 2004), Paul and His Opponents, ed. Stanley E. Porter (PAST 2; Leiden: Brill, 2005), Paul and His Theology, ed. Stanley E. Porter (PAST 3; Leiden:
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