Chapter 1: the Investigation of the Pauline Letters As a History of the Discovery of Their

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Preface: Toward Understanding Chapter 1: The Investigation of the Pauline Letters as a History of the Discovery of Their Inauthenticity The Interest Awakes The Sources The Basic Elements of Our Picture of Paul Acts: An Eyewitness Report? Paul in Wonderland With Rabbi Gamaliel Paul the Persecutor Paul on the Way to Damascus The Conversion Missionary Journeys Imprisonment From Acts to the Pauline Writings Original and Forgery in Early Christianity The Inauthenticity of the Pastoral Epistles (1, 2 Timothy, Titus) Differences in Language and Theology Did Paul Have a Secretary? Paul's Mantel A Double Standard Ephesians, Colossians, and 2 Thessalonians: Inauthentic Letters from No-man's Land Contradictions Did Paul Copy from Himself? Paul as a Schoolmaster? Whoever Says A Must also Say B E. Evanson: The Uncomfortable Englishman From Baur to Bauer The Radical Dutchmen Seeking Traces Two Pauls Why Does Luke Remain Silent About the Letters of Paul? Justin and Aristides 1 Clement and Ignatius: Two Will-o'-the-Wisps of New Testament Criticism Chapter 2: The Historical Origin of the Pauline Letters De Omnibus Dubitandum: One Must Doubt Everything Antiqua Mater The First Witness to Paul: Marcion the Heretic Marcion's Two Gods When Did Marcion Become a Heretic? Marcionism and Gnosis Marcion's "Discovery" Mouse from Pontus -- or Catholic Redactor? Paul as an Apostle of Circumcision An Initial Visit with the Pope -- An Interpolated "Trip to Rome" The Pauline Christ as Son of David Paul Teaches a Christ with only an Apparent Body -- Paul as Docetist Paul and the Teaching of Two Gods Paul -- The Domesticated Marcion Paul -- The Non-Jew What Use Was Made of the Pauline Letters in the Second Century? The Opponents of Paul Marcion as Author of the Letters? Chapter 3: A Legend and Its Historical Kernel A Final Open Question Fabrication Impossible? The Legendary Paul Paul and Thecla The Face of an Angel Fight with Beasts in Ephesus From Paul of the Legends to the Historical Paul The Doppelganger: Paul and Simon The Sinful Woman Who Was Simon Magus? The Flatterer The Visionary, Miracle Worker, and Missionary The Son of Lawlessness The Match-Maker Simon Atomos -- Simon Paulus From Paul to Saul Simon the Leper and Paul's Sickness Simon and Helena -- Paul and Thecla -- Jesus and Mary Magdalene Chapter 4: What Remains? Plato's Allegory of the Cave and the Investigation of Earliest Christian History The Church and Her Heretics Paul and Jesus The Foundations of the Christian Faith Ratzinger, the Christian and Fortunate Hans The Letter Kills... The Role of the Church Literature (Bibliography) Back Cover