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Review of John J. Clabeaux, A Lost Edition of the Letters of Paul: A Reassessment of the Text of the Pauline Corpus Attested by Marcion (Washington, Catholic Biblical Association of America, 1989).
Clabeaux proposes that it is “far more likely that Marcion’s role was not the creation of a new [Pauline] text but the adaptation of an already existing Pauline Corpus which began with Galatians; it called Ephesians ‘Laodiceans’; it had the fourteen-chapter form of Romans; and it contained a great number of variants which scholars have wrongly assumed were created by Marcion.” 4.
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Review of A Lost Edition of the Letters of Paul: A Reassessment of the Text of the Pauline Corpus Attested by Marcion (1989).
Once one considers the textual affinities of the Pauline Corpus reflected by Marcion, “it becomes far more likely that Marcion’s role was not the creation of a new text but the adaptation of an already existing Pauline Corpus which began with Galatians; it called Ephesians ‘Laodiceans’; it had the fourteen-chapter form of Romans; and it contained a great number of variants which scholars have wrongly assumed were created by Marcion.” 4.
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Review of Laird, The Pauline Corpus in Early Christianity: Its Formation, Publication, and Circulation (2022).
Laird argues that an early edition of the Pauline letters was “initially formed around the time of Paul’s death using duplicate copies of his writings” and that “someone, such as Luke or another companion of Paul, may have initially published a ten-volume edition of the corpus and that this edition as later expanded to include the Pastoral Epistles and Hebrews.” 317. Luke even “played a significant role in the production of the Pastoral Epistles and Hebrews, contributions that would also tie him to the one or both of the expanded editions of the corpus.” 303.
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M. David Litwa, Ph.D. 