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Counting Paul goes inside the field of computational stylistics and asks whether its methods can solve, as some have claimed, one of the most vexed questions in Biblical Studies: Who wrote the Pauline Epistles? As a first-of-its-kind meta-analysis of the application of forensic stylometry to the Pauline authorship question, Counting Paul debunks much of what has passed as a Cartesian foundation for separating out the historical Paul from the canonical Paul and shows that there is no mathematical solution to this basic humanities question. It reorients the question within the milieu of Paul's early reception in Christianity.…mehr

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Counting Paul goes inside the field of computational stylistics and asks whether its methods can solve, as some have claimed, one of the most vexed questions in Biblical Studies: Who wrote the Pauline Epistles? As a first-of-its-kind meta-analysis of the application of forensic stylometry to the Pauline authorship question, Counting Paul debunks much of what has passed as a Cartesian foundation for separating out the historical Paul from the canonical Paul and shows that there is no mathematical solution to this basic humanities question. It reorients the question within the milieu of Paul's early reception in Christianity.
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Benjamin L. White is Associate Professor of Religion, Department of Philosophy and Religion at Clemson University. His first book, Remembering Paul (2014, OUP), explored how Paul becomes an object of knowledge. His articles have appeared in the Journal for the Study of the New Testament, the Journal of Early Christian Studies, Catholic Biblical Quarterly, and Vigiliae christianae. He co-chairs the Historical Paul section of the Society of Biblical Literature and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Theological Studies.