How many New Testament epistles did Paul write?

Answer 1

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The thirteen epistles which have been attributed to Paul are undoubtedly written by Paul. The reason is simple. The early church was interested in truth and only truth. If they did not know who write something then it would not be attributed to anyone, as for example, Hebrews. One church officer was in fact dismissed for adding the name of an apostle to his otherwise orthodox writing to give it authority.

Today, people use various styles of writing as did well known authors of the past when referring to different subjects or writing to different people. Paul regularly used a secretary due to apparent problems with his own eyesight and so this may also account for some differences. Differences in style thus do not at all prove differences in authorship and the case for Pauline authorship of all the letters which bear his name is actually quite strong as there are major similarities of style which are often ignored.

Hebrews has a number of distinctly Pauline features in it. The differences in style here can also be accounted for by the subject matter, as well as the Jewish audience. Scholars come down on both sides of the fence with Hebrews. There is evidence both ways, with a number of authors suggested including Paul, Luke, Clement of Rome and Apollos. As far as we can be certain, Paul wrote thirteen letters/books of The Bible, though with books like Hebrews, we're still not certain who wrote them, and Paul could be their author. In general, however, Paul wrote countless letters, as they were the primary means of communication (besides talking), to various people, churches, and institutions about many, many different topics. Thirteen of those are in the Bible.

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A longstanding tradition regards Paul as the author of the letter to the Hebrews, but recent scholars find that conclusion doubtful for various reasons, including the style and vocabulary of the Greek text.

There are 13 books normally attributed to Paul :

Epistle to the Romans

First Epistle to the Corinthians

Second Epistle to the Corinthians

Epistle to the Galatians

Epistle to the Ephesians

Epistle to the Philippians

Epistle to the Colossians

First Epistle to the Thessalonians

Second Epistle to the Thessalonians

First Epistle to Timothy

Second Epistle to Timothy

Epistle to Titus

Epistle to Philemon

Answer:

There was and still is much controversy with regards to Paul's letters. Most of the controversy surrounding the Pauline letters is authorship; which letters did he write and which ones are not by his hand? Some scholars say Paul wrote 5 letters, 4 are still being debated, and that 4 letters were written by someone other than Paul:

• Romans- by Paul
• 1 Corinthians- by Paul
• 2 Corinthians- by Paul
• Galatians- by Paul
• Ephesians- still debated
• Philippians- still debated
• Colossians- still debated
• 1 Thessalonians- by Paul
• 2 Thessalonians- still debated
• 1 and 2 Timothy- not by Paul
• Titus- not by Paul
• Philemon- by Paul

N.T. Wright, the Bishop of Durham and one of the most widely read biblical scholars of our day and critical of the 'old perspective' on Paul, says the 'fixed points' of scholarship which, growing as they did out of a very different era to our own, may perhaps have been allowed to remain more by fashion than by solid argument. Take for example the widespread assumption still common in many quarters that not only Ephesians but also Colossians are not written by Paul himself, even if they may contain some material that goes back to him. He says our suspicions ought to be aroused by the fact that such consensus as there has ever been on the subject came from the time when the all dominant power in New Testament scholarship lay with a particular kind of German existentialist Lutheransim for whom any ecclesiology other than a purely functional one, any view of Judaism other than a purely negative one, any view of Jesus Christ other than a fairly low Christology, any view of creation other than a Barthian "Nein" was deeply suspect. Furthermore, the assumption that a high Christology must mean later, and non Pauline, authorship has been brought to the material, not discovered within it.

We have no idea how many he wrote, but it was certainly more than the 13 (or 14) commonly attributed to him in the New Testament. At least one of those (1 Corinthians) refers to an earlier letter which he had written to the Corinthians, which did not survive. Without doubt, there were others.
Paul wrote a total of 14 books, including one from prison.

Answer 2

A:Thirteen epistles have been attributed to Paul. Only seven Pauline epistles are widely considered by biblical scholars to be genuine, and of these five have been shown by computer analysis to contain exactly the same writing or dictation style: Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Philemon and Galatians. The two that may, with some confidence, have been written by Paul, but do not match the style of Galatians are Philippiansand 1 Thessalonians.

However, references within 1 and 2 Corinthians suggest the existence of probably 2 additional epistles to the Corinthians, written during the same period.

Other epistles attributed to Paul were really written by anonymous authors long after the time of Paul.

Answer 3

There are 22 epistles (or letters) in the New Testament:

Pauline epistles

1. Romans

2. 1 Corinthians

3. 2 Corinthians

4. Galatians

5. Ephesians

6. Philippians

7. Colossians

8. 1 Thessalonians

9. 2 Thessalonians

10. 1 Timothy

11. 2 Timothy

12. Titus

13. Philemon

Non Pauline Epistles

1. Hebrews

2. James

3. 1 Peter

4. 2 Peter

5. 1 John

6. 2 John

7. 3 John

8. Jude

9. Revelation

Answer 4

there are 13 books that belongs to pauline epistle. this are these following:

RomansMajor55-56 CEPaul55-59 CE (Ch.1-15)Paul1 CorinthiansMajor54-55Paul55+Paul2 CorinthiansMajor55-56Paul55+PaulGalatiansEarly48Paul48-62PaulEphesiansPrison61PaulBefore 95 CEUnknownPhilippiansPrison62Paul54-62PaulColossiansPrison61Paul54-90Probably Paul1 ThessaloniansEarly51Paul50-51Paul2 ThessaloniansEarly51Paul75-90 probablyUnknown1 TimothyPastoral62Paul100-150 CEUnknown2 TimothyPastoral64Paul100-150 CEUnknownTitusPastoral63Paul100-150 CEUnknownPhilemon

Answer 5

Between five and seven epistles were actually written by Paul. Raymond E Brown (An Introduction to the New Testament) says that the majority of scholars say that 1 Thessalonians, Galatians, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Philippians, Philemon and Romans were written by him. A.Q. Morton goes further, having carried out a computer analysis of the epistles attributed to Paul and found that only Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians and Philemon contain exactly the same writing style as Galatians, leaving some room for doubt regarding 1 Thessalonians and Philippians.

Also traditionally attributed to Paul are 2 Thessalonians, Ephesians, Colossians, 1and 2 Timothy, and Titus, which are sometimes referred to as pseudo-Pauline epistles and are believed to have been entirely unknown to St Paul.

Answer 6

Thirteen epistles have been attributed to Paul. Hebrews was also at one stage attributed to him, but that is too clearly not the case. It was never attributed to him until late in the second century.

At least seven Pauline epistles are widely considered to be genuine, and of these five have been shown by computer analysis to contain exactly the same writing or dictation style: Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians,Philemon and Galatians.
The two that may, with some confidence, have been written by Paul, but do not so closely match the style of Galatians are Philippians and 1 Thessalonians.

Answer 7

Before Paul became a Christian missionary, he seems to have been important in the persecution of early Christians, so would already have been well into his adulthood before his conversion. Paul said ( Epistle to the Galatians) that after his conversion, he travelled to Arabia, then Damascus (bypassing Jerusalem), Jerusalem, then Syria and Cilicia, and back to Jerusalem. He must have spent 3 years in Damascus, 14 years in Syria and Cilicia, and indeterminate periods in the other centres, before he even wrote this epistle.

If Paul was as young as 30 at the time he became a Christian, he must have been around 50 by the time he wrote Galatians. From internal evidence, Romans, 1 Corinthians and 2 Corinthians seem to have been written in the same period.

Answer 8

Paul didn't write any "Psalms", the book of Psalms was written far before the time of Yeshua ben Yosef(Jesus) and Paul. Although some are described as 'Pauline' it doesn't mean he wrote them.

Answer 9

17

Answer 10

13