The Dec 2012 issue of JSNT is online and has some very interesting articles including one by Paul Foster where he calls for a re-evaluation of the scholarly tendency to treat 2 Thessalonians as pseudonymous. Essentially, Foster says, due to developments in research, the very outdated arguments for why 2 Thess was not written by Paul are no longer convincing. I think Foster is right about this, and this also applies (I would argue) to Colossians.
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(sigh) Oh Erhman…Well, so much of this has to do with historiography and the philosophy of historical inquiry. Markus Barth explains his underpinning philosophy with regards to the authorship of Colossians: “in dubio pro reo” (in doubt, [side] with the accused). Essentially, I am “Barthian” in this regard, folks like Erhman aren’t. Still, more and more commentators are open to Paul having written Colossians (like myself), Peter having written 1 Peter (Joel Green), and James having written James (deSilva, McKnight). I think Foster’s piece is simply one more push against the wall of skepticism borne out of a kind of petrified wall of confidence in the ability to detect a forgery.
[...] Nijay Gupta points to a recent article in JSNT by Paul Foster on the authenticity of 2 Thessalonians: “Who Wrote 2 Thessalonians? A Fresh Look at an Old Problem,” JSNT 35 (2012): 150-175. [...]
[...] HT: Nijay Gupta [...]
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