The Pastoral Letters as Composite Documents

The authorship of the "Pastoral letters" has been a matter of scholarly debate. The author argues that they reflect a compositional history that was commonplace throughout the ancient Near East. He takes the reader on a tour of biblical and extra-biblical sources, examining their literary histories, and arguing that they are composite documents.

Autorentext
James D. Miller is an IBM Certified Expert, Master Consultant, and application/system architect with over 35 years of applications and system design/development experience across multiple platforms, technologies, and data formats, including big data. His experience includes IBM Planning Analytics, BI, web architecture/design, systems analysis, GUI design/testing, data modeling, and OLAP design/development. He has also worked on client/server, web, and mainframe applications. He has authored numerous books, including Implementing Splunk, Second Edition; Mastering Splunk, Hands-On Machine Learning with IBM Watson, Watson Projects, Statistics for Data Science, and Mastering Predictive Analytics with R, Second Edition.

Klappentext
The authorship of the Pastoral letters has been a matter of intense scholarly debate for almost two hundred years. The letters clearly purport to be written by Paul, but perceived differences in the literary style, vocabulary and theology of the Pastorals when compared with that of the genuine Pauline letters suggests that this was not so. The arguments have centred primarily on the question of whether Paul or a disciple of Paul -- a gifted pseudonymist -- composed these letters. It is the 'either/or' nature of the debate that is brought into serious question in this book. Dr Miller argues that the Pastorals reflect a compositional history that was commonplace throughout the ancient Near East. He takes the reader on a wide-ranging tour of biblical and extra-biblical sources, examining their literary histories, and arguing that the Pastorals are composite documents, not unlike many Jewish and early Christian works.

Zusammenfassung
This book makes a major contribution to the ongoing debate about the authorship of the Pastoral letters. Arguing the conventional opinion - that the Pastorals were written by a disciple of Paul's - Dr Miller suggests that the letters are composite documents based upon brief, but genuine, Pauline notes written to Timothy and Titus.

Inhalt
1. Introduction; 2. Religious writings as collections; 3. I Timothy: a compositional analysis; 4. II Timothy: a compositional analysis; 5. Titus: a compositional analysis; 6. Summary and conclusions; Appendix A: The Pastorals: compositions or collections; Appendix B: A formal analysis of the Pastorals; Letters; Bibliography.

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