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Aside from Jesus, the Apostle Paul had the greatest formative influence on the early Christian movement. Yet who was this passionate missionary who carried the message of Christ throughout the Mediterranean world? The New Testament writings give us not one but two portraits of Paul. We read numerous details of Paul’s life and relationships in the Book of Acts, and we find an additional set of...

the pseudo-Pauline letters. They are, however, also willing to sift through the Lukan frame on Paul in accordance with the principles of “whether Luke disagrees with Paul (omit it), whether Luke adds to Paul but within his own rather than Paul’s theology (bracket it), and whether Luke adds to Paul but within Paul’s rather than Luke’s own theology (keep it).”85 They entirely bracket the canon’s post-Pauline pseudonymous frame on Paul by excluding the six disputed Pauline letters from consideration.
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