Pauline epistles
- Matthew
- Markus
- Luke
- John
- Roman
- 1 Corinthians
- 2 Corinthians
- Galatians
- Ephesians
- Philippians
- Colossians
- 1 Thessalonians
- 2 Thessalonians
- 1 Timothy
- 2 Timothy
- Titus
- Philemon
- Hebrew
- Epistle of James
- 1 Peter
- 2 Peter
- 1 John
- 2 John
- 3 John
- Judas
Pauline Epistles, Pauline letters or Pauline corpus are fourteen letters or epistles of the New Testament called the traditionally viewed as the Apostle Paul to the copyright owners have. These letters are at the beginning of the 21 New Testament letters and form in scope with approximately five -sixths of the main part.
Authorship
The book of Hebrews does not mention any name of author. Of the 13 letters, the name Paul as the author of seven according to historical- critical research are undisputed Pauline. This generally accepted as genuine letters hot proto Pauline letters or proto Pauline ( see table); they account for about three-quarters of the circumference of the 13 letters, because to them the particularly large letters (Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians ) belong.
- The Epistle to the Romans
- The first letter to the Corinthians
- The second letter to the Corinthians
- The Letter to the Galatians
- The Letter to the Philippians
- The first letter to the Thessalonians
- The letter to Philemon
(disputed )
- The Letter to the Colossians
- The Letter to the Ephesians
- The second letter to the Thessalonians
Pastoral Letters
- The first letter to Timothy
- The second letter to Timothy
- The Letter to Titus
Attributed
- The Epistle to the Hebrews
Deuteropaulinische letters or deutero are called those writings of the New Testament that were written according Briefpräskript by the Apostle Paul to Christian communities or individual employees, but after the assessment of historical-critical exegetes - do not come from Paul himself - for stylistic and substantive grounds. Thus they are considered Pseudepigrapha.
Most of the Ephesians is considered deuteropaulinisch, very often the second Epistle to the Thessalonians, often the Colossians: Him are numerous researchers to the deutero-Pauline, many others, however, keep this letter for a genuine Pauline letter.
If an exegete about the Colossians and 2nd Thessalonians Paul also attributes, then makes him the deuteropaulinische rest - of the 13 letters of the author's name Paul - only a fifth of.
The three pastoral epistles are considered by the historical-critical exegesis as pseudepigraph. They have a significantly different character than letters to individuals. It is believed that they originated later and that they presuppose the already largely complete the Pauline corpus. Therefore, they are usually not referred to as deuteropaulinisch but as tritopaulinische letters or Tritopaulinen.
Pseudepigraphy is not to be interpreted as a forgery in the modern sense. If an employee or student of Paul wrote a letter while Paul stated as sender, so he wanted to put the letter under the authority of the apostle and place him the teaching tradition of Paul.
The anonymous Epistle to the Hebrews was handed down in the early church often as a letter of the Apostle Paul and was therefore included in the Pauline corpus. However, the letter has no Responsibility; already some church fathers were of the opinion that it is not due to Paul, but to a different author.
The letters to the Ephesians, the Philippians, the Colossians and to Philemon are called captivity letters, since Paul is said to have written as a prisoner ( in Rome, Caesarea or Ephesus).
History
The Proto Paulinen are probably the oldest verschriftete part of the New Testament and also the oldest preserved early Christian writings. They were probably written before the Gospels. The 1st Thessalonians is widely believed the oldest of the epistles of Paul; He was written about in the year 49. He would thus also the oldest copy of the New Testament. Very early resulting collections of letters circulated in the communities that were founded or visited by Paul. However, they circulated soon in other communities of early Christianity and were used in worship. The collection of Paul's letters to the so-called Pauline corpus is an early form of canonization. There is evidence of an editorial process, ie some of the proto Pauline could be compilations of several originally independent letters. Thus, the long-lost and mentioned in 2 Corinthians 7.8 to 13 EU tears letter might be today actually get in Chapter 10 to 13 of the second letter to the Corinthians. .
In the textual tradition, the Pauline corpus, plays its own role, since it was first presented in a separate manuscript band. Accordingly, the four gospels collectively Gospels manuscript and the Catholic Epistles, together with the Acts as Corpus Apostolicum in circulation, while the Apocalypse was long disputed and a separate text history.
Apocryphal epistles of Paul
The Muratorian Fragment mentions two explicitly identified as counterfeit Paul's letters: the Laodizenerbrief and a letter of Paul to the Alexandrians. From Alexandrinerbrief only the name is known. In some manuscripts of the Vulgate Latin worded a Laodizenerbrief is included. Thus, a copy is for example in the Book of Armagh, which is also featured in a warning as fake. It is disputed whether this is identical to the Laodizenerbrief, is mentioned in the Muratorian Fragment, or related to it. Among the Nag Hammadi writings, there is the prayer of the Apostle Paul, but which used Gnostic terms and is clearly not due to Paul. The third letter to the Corinthians is also considered pseudepigraphy. From the fourth century, there is a fictional correspondence between Seneca and Paul, who is due neither to Paul nor on Seneca.