Re: Paul Without Acts
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2018 7:05 am
Yes, sorry. Typo on my part.
Investigating the roots of western civilization (ye olde BC&H forum of IIDB lives on...)
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If we accept that the letters that we now have of Paul are indeed collections of earlier, smaller letters, then we are talking about somewhere in the area of at least 17 letters making up our modern letters. viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3487andrewcriddle wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2018 11:42 pma/ It is at least a 32 year gap.Ben C. Smith wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2018 10:28 pm I think one could probably stretch Paul's career long enough to make his escape happen under Aretas IV, as a much younger man, and his main epistolary ministry occur only much later, after 27, could one not? (None of this is my preferred reconstruction, as I have stated.)
b/ IMO it is implied that Paul's escape from Damascus is part of his troubled life as an evangelist. If so we have a Paul who has a very long career as an evangelist but whose surviving letters come only from the very end of his career,
Andrew Criddle
I understand.
If I'm not mistaken, Corinth was a veteran settlement colony of Julius Caesar while Philippi was a colony of Augustus, and Ephesus never one at all. Rather than a colony, Ephesus became the capitol of proconsular Asia under Augustus after 27 BCE.Ethan wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2018 5:56 am The letters of Paul are addressed mainly to colonies founded by Julius Caesar.
Corinth - Colonia Laus Iulia Corinthiensis
Philippe - Colonia Augusta Iulia Philippensis
Ephesus - Temple of Divine Julius Caesar
Thus who are the target audience of the letters, the Flamen Divi Julii ?
Actually Paul uses the name Paulos, not Paulus. While Paulos is a transliteration into Greek of Paulus it makes me wonder why he would do that if indeed his actual name was the Roman Praenomen Paulus. I tend to suspect that Paul's name is actually a Cognomen or 'nick name'. Something like "shorty" or "tiny" perhaps. "Paulus" in Latin means "little" or "small" and "Paulos" would be the Greek version of those. I would also point out that Paul doesn't transliterate "Titus" into "Titos" for example.One problem with PAUL that is never addressed , his name, which is a Roman praenomen , but to become a Roman citizen at that time you
had to be sponsored, Plutarch was sponsored by Lucius Mestrius Florus and became 'Lucius Mestrius Plutarch', thus what are Paul's Nomen and Cognomen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_naming_conventions
It is obvious that Luke and Acts are written by the same author and thus PAUL could then be the literally invention of whomever this 'Lucius' was, another Latin name missing it's Nomen and Cognomen.