Der Galaterbrief nach seiner Echtheit untersucht nebst kritischen bemerkungen zu den Paulinischen Hauptbriefen (1888 Steck), book

Der Galaterbrief nach seiner Echtheit untersucht nebst kritischen bemerkungen zu den Paulinischen Hauptbriefen <German> (1888) is an book by Rudolf Steck.

Abstract

Along with Willem Christiaan van Manen, Steck was one of the most ardent critics of the genuineness of the entire Pauline corpus. This "Ultra-Tübingen" school's argument for a late dating (120-140 CE) of the Pauline letters was based around a number of points. First, Acts knows nothing of Paul's literary activity nor of the conflicts seen in the letters. Due to the confused picture often portrayed in the letters, Acts must be seen as historically the most authentic. Second, the Ignatian letters are spurious, and 1 Clement is dated to the middle of the second century. Therefore, the first attestation to Paul's letters is from Marcion, who preserves the most genuine form of the letters. These letters show the efforts of the Pauline school which was influenced by Philo and Seneca and was probably more gnostically oriented. This type of Greek, Gnostic system could not have existed in first generation Christianity. Therefore, Paul has as little to do with Paulinism as the apostle John has to do with the theology of the fourth Gospel.

Editions and translations

Published in Berlin, Germany: Reimer, 1888.