this is to say that if we define Pauline authorship to include greater, rather than lesser, input from minds and hands other than Paul’s, then some of the perceived differences between the so-called authentic and inauthentic letters may be explained. But we are getting ahead of ourselves. Using several criteria, scholars generally divide the Pauline letters into two categories, either ‘authentic’ and ‘inauthentic’ or, more objectively, ‘disputed’ or ‘contested’ (as to authorship) and ‘undisputed’
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