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Writer of 13 books in the New Testament, St. Paul is a central figure in the development of the church and Christian theology. In this text, Ronald D. Witherup offers responses to the most important and frequently asked questions about St. Paul, his world, and his writings in a readable format.

all six of them. They are labeled the Deutero-Pauline letters, meaning “Second Paul.” A common practice in the first century was to write documents in the name of a significant historical figure and attribute the document to that person. This practice may strike us as strange and illegitimate, but first-century people viewed authorship in a different fashion than we do. They were not bothered by the idea that someone might have written a document in someone else’s name. This would be especially true
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