-Caveat Lector-
In a message dated 99-12-14 14:08:00 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>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.
Beg to differ. No manuscript of any book in the New Testament is --or ever
was, in historical times-- in the "author's" own hand. All were copies of
copies of copies, ad infinitum, of scribes. Also, historians dispute the
authenticity of several of "Paul's" writings not because of any graphological
differences but because of rather glaring differences in the criteria used
for determining authorship -- vocabulary, grammar, mode of exposition, in
short "style." Shakespeare did not write or think like Hemingway.
For my next two cents, I've read all the best scholarly studies of Paul, and
the honest conclusion is that no one knows what Paul's "defect" was. There
aren't any "outside" sources in history, even in the Church, that described
his appearance. All we have to work with is the internal evidence Paul
himself gives in his writings, and those are not specific at all, beyond
references to some "thorn in his side," physically or behaviorally, which
tended to disrupt his self-control, leading to results he considered
"sinful." The consensus is that, IF it even WAS a PHYSICAL problem, it may
have been epilepsy.
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