Pseudepigraphy Flashcards
What are the Pastorals?
1 Timothy, 2 Timothy and Titus
What year was Schleiermacher’s letter?
1807
What did Schleiermacher’s letter conclude?
The inauthenticity of 1 Timothy as it used diction not found in other letters
Which scholars suggested the inauthenticity of all 3 of the pastorals?
Baur, Dibelius and Eichhorn
How many previously unused words does 1 Timothy contain?
82
Which book shows the excommunication of a presbyter who forges a Pauline letter?
Tertullian
What are some examples of Church structure found in Titus?
Church elders and servants of God
Which other Pauline letters do not match with the timeline of Acts?
Romans and Galatians
What features did Richards suggest were indicative of 2 Thessalonians inauthenticity?
Parallelism, absent Pauline themes, authoritative rather than argumentative, evidence of redaction
Which Thessalonians was perhaps written as a ‘restrainer’?
2 Thessalonians, sometimes thought to have been written to blur the idea of the imminent parousia
Is 2 Thessalonians verified by external sources?
No, it is ‘virtually invisible’ in historical sources
Who are the other co-authors of some letters?
Silvanus and Timothy
Why might the idea of a ‘Pauline style’ be erroneous?
The rhetorical ideal at the time was prosopopoeia, or writing in character
