Paul's Pseudonymous Authors

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A pseudonymity is creating a work in the name of a deceased author. There are several books in the New Testament that are pseudonymous. the writer could have been someone who followed the life of Paul, a credible source that witnessed some of Paul’s personal accounts. “ Pseudonymous authors wrote not to deceive but to perpetrate the thoughts of an apostle, to address later situations in the Christian community as believed would have been written by the original author

Though some of these letters were not written by Paul, they hold important factual information that was prevalent during that time that need to be revealed. I believe these letters were important because these stories all lead up to another, though some may feel they are controversial,

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