-Caveat Lector-
I thought that the reason Paul used an amanuensis was that *everyone* used
an amanuensis then and there. Kris, no, there are no actual Pauline
manuscripts, but if you read New Testament Greek, you realize quite rapidly
that Paul's letters read like transcripts of someone thinking out loud:
run-on sentences, sentences cut off in mid-thought, long stretches of
near-stream-of-consciousness. There are a lot of places where material has
obviously been inserted at a later point, obviously to bolster official
Church doctrine; these passages are never in the same style as the
"original" Pauline material. You can disagree with the doctrine, but as I
read Paul's letters, both in Greek and in English translation (I prefer the
New Revised Standard Version), I find a real *person* emerging, someone who
dictates at white heat, striding back and forth, rattling off his ideas
faster than anyone can possibly write them down. IMO, Paul was a real
person, whose personality survives very clearly in his letters.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kris Millegan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 1999 2:58 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [CTRL] Politically Correct Jesus
>
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> In a message dated 12/14/99 11:08:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> >This is why he had others write for him so often, such as Luke and
> Timothy.
> >This is also why historians often disagree about the authenticity of
> Paul's
> >writings, and often renounce his writings, because the handwriting
> varies
> >in more than one copy of the manuscript notations.
>
> There are the actual manuscripts of Pauline letters available?
>
> Om
> k
>
>
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