the communities giving life to these traditions—passed on orally or promulgated by prophets and teachers—composed the network of Christianity during the first two centuries. What transpired after the death of Paul, around the year 60? The circulation of his letters is already attested during his life (2 Cor. 10:10). His writings were progressively collected and assembled, the first indications of a canon of Pauline letters dating from the end of the first century. First Clement, Ignatius of Antioch,