Table of Contents

Preface ix

Introduction 1

Intellectual Backgrounding (and Foregrounding)

Excursus: Research on the Pauline Legacy

In the End, Paul...

Conclusion

1 Paul Becomes A Book 23

What Is a Letter?

Collected Letters

The Collection of Paul's Letters

Excursus: The Number Seven

The Formation of the Pauline Corpus

2 The Pseudepigraphic Pauline Letters 63

Colossians

Ephesians

2 Thessalonians

The Pastoral Epistles: 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus

3 Corinthians

Laodiceans

Alexandrians

The Correspondence between Paul and Seneca

Conclusion

3 Paul and the Epistolary Tradition in Early Christianity 119

Hebrews

James

1 Peter

1 Clement

Ignatius of Antioch

Polycarp of Smyrna

2 Peter

Dionysius of Corinth

4 Paul In Narrative 149

The Acts of Paul

The Epistula Apostolorum

The Acts of Peter

The Acts of Barnabas

The Acts of Titus

Xanthippe

Apocalypses

The Pseudo-Clementines

Conclusion

5 Other Representatives of Ant-Paulinism 187

Silence regarding Paul

Matthew

Hegesippus

Others Who Are Silent about Paul

6 Paul as an Object of Interpretation: Marcion to Irenameus 199

Marcion of Sinope

Paul among the "Gnostics"

Excursus: Primary Sources of Gnosis

Irenaeus of Lyons

7 Conclusion

The End: In The Beginning 229

Appendix A Pauline Family Tree 241

Abbreviations 245

Bibliography 251

Notes 283

Index Of Primary Sources 359

Index Of Modern Authors 371

Tables

Introduction

Table 1 Paul vs. Jesus 3

Table 2 Letters Attributed to Paul in the Early Church 21

Chapter 1

Table 3 The Order of Pauline Letters in Various Early Sources 29

Table 4 The Order of Letter Fragments in 2 Corinthians 40

Table 5 The Source of 1 Corinthians 14:34 47

Chapter 3

Table 6 Paul and James 123

Table 7 Peter and Paul in 1 Clement 131

Chapter 4

Table 8 Paul's Letters vs. Acts 150

Table 9 The "Passions" of Jesus and Paul 154

Table 10 Synopsis of the Acts of Paul 159

Chapter 6

Table 11 Allusions to Paul's Letters in the Gospel of Truth 213