Paul's collection: Chronology and history

New Testament Studies

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 95-110

  Wedderburn, A J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1017/s0028688502000073     Document Type: Article

References (61)

1. The writings on Pauline chronology are too numerous to list here. A reasonably up-to-date bibliography and account of the various solutions can be found in R. Riesner, Die Frühzeit des Apostels Paulus: Studien zur Chronologie, Missionsstrategie und Theologie (WUNT 71; Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 1994) esp. 1-26
2. A. Suhl, 'Paulinische Chronologie im Streit der Meinungen', ANRW 2.26.2 (Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 1995) 939-1188
3. U. Schnelle, Einleitung in das Neue Testament (UTB 1830; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 3rd edn 1999) 31-43.
4. H. Räisänen, Paul and the Law [WUNT 29; Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 1983, 2nd edn 1987
5. F. Vouga, An die Galater (HNT 10; Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 1998) esp. 3-5
6. J. L. Martyn, Galatians (AB 33A; New York etc.: Doubleday, 1997) 225
7. J. Eckert, 'Die Kollekte des Paulus für Jerusalem', Kontinuität und Einheit (ed. P.-G. Müller, W. Stenger; FS F. Mußner; Freiburg etc.: Herder, 1981) 65-80, here 67
8. L. W. Hurtado,'The Jerusalem Collection and the Book of Galatians', JSNT 5 (1979) 46-62
9. G. Lüdemann, Paulus, der Heidenapostel 1: Studien zur Chronologie (FRLANT 123; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1980) esp. 109
10. T. Söding, 'Zur Chronologie der paulinischen Briefe: ein Diskussionsvorschlag', Biblische Notizen 56 (1991) 31-59
11. Das Wort vom Kreuz: Studien zur paulinischen Theologie (WUNT 93; Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 1997) 3-30, here 26.
12. J. B. Lightfoot, Saint Paul's Epistle to the Galatians (London: Macmillan, 1884) 55, 219
13. U. Borse, Der Standort des Galaterbriefes [BBB 41; Köln: Hanstein, 1972] 37-8, and Der Brief an die Galater [RNT; Regensburg: Pustet, 1984] 212
14. J. M. G. Barclay, Obeying the Truth: Paul's Ethics in Galatians (Edinburgh: Clark, 1988/Minneapolis: Fortress, 1991) 163 n. 59, 166 n. 69
15. J. Becker, Paulus: Der Apostel der Völker (Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 1989) 24
16. cf. also idem, 'Der Brief an die Galater', in idem & U. Luz, Die Briefe an die Galater, Epheser und Kolosser (NTD 8/1; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1998) 37.
17. S. Joubert, Paul as Benefactor: Reciprocity, Strategy and Theological Reflection in Paul's Collection (WUNT 124; Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 2000) 157
18. J. Knox, 'Galatians, Letter to the', IDB 2.338-43, here 343
19. And yet B. Beckheuer, Paulus und Jerusalem: Kollekte und Mission im theologischen Denken des Heidenapostels (EHS.T 611; Frankfurt a.M. etc.: Lang, 1997) 86, and Joubert, Paul as Benefactor, 89 (cf. 103) argue that the aorist ejspouvdasa means that Paul is still fully involved in raising the collection at the time of writing Galatians; this seems to make remarkably little sense of the choice of tense here (as opposed to either the present or the perfect).
20. Cf. J. L. Martyn, Galatians (AB 33A; New York etc.: Doubleday, 1997) 207, 222-8 (for Martyn Paul's withdrawal from this undertaking of the Antioch church was one of the charges leveled against him in Galatia by the 'Teachers', and for that reason Paul stresses his initial enthusiasm for it - until the quarrel of Gal 2.11-14).
21. cf. also Eckert, 'Die Kollekte', 68
22. Cf. D. Georgi, Der Armen zu gedenken: die Geschichte der Kollekte des Paulus für Jerusalem (Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener, 2nd edn 1994) 33; Beckheuer, Paulus und Jerusalem, 227.
23. Die Kollekte der paulinischen Gemeinden für Jerusalem als Ausdruck ekklesialer Gemeinschaft', Ekklesiologie des Neuen Testaments [ed. R. Kampling, T. Söding; FS K. Kertelge; Freiburg etc: Herder, 1996] 301-15
24. It is not said that the 'poor' were those of the Jerusalem church, although most assume that they were meant here; cf., however, the views of V. Bartlet ('"Only Let Us Be Mindful of the Poor": Gal 2.10', The Expositor 9 [1899] 218-55) as noted by Vouga, An die Galater, 49.
25. I have argued further for that possibility in 'Some Recent Pauline Chronologies', ET 92 (1981) 103-8
26. R. Pesch, Die Apostelgeschichte (EKKNT 5; Zürich etc.: Benziger/Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener, 1986) 1.356
27. A. Suhl, Paulus und seine Briefe: ein Beitrag zur paulinischen Chronologie (SNT 11; Gütersloh: Mohn, 1975) 57-69
28. 'Chronologie', 982, 985-6
29. Martyn, Galatians, 206, but cf. earlier E. de W. Burton, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians [ICC; Edinburgh: Clark, 1921] 99
30. F. F. Bruce, The Epistle to the Galatians [NIGTC; Exeter: Paternoster, 1982] 126
31. D. R. Hall, 'St Paul and Famine Relief: A Study in Galatians 2.10', ET 82 (1971) 309-11
32. Esp. J. Knox, Chapters in a Life of Paul (New York: Abingdon-Cokesbury/ London: Black, 1954) 58; for his change of mind about 2 Cor 12.2-4 cf. 78 n. 3.
33. Georgi, Der Armen zu gedenken, 33.
34. Cf. A. J. M. Wedderburn, 'Paul and Barnabas: The Anatomy and Chronology of a Parting of the Ways', Fair Play: Diversity and Conflicts in Early Christianity (ed. I. Dunderberg, K. Syreeni, C. Tuckett; FS H. Räisänen; Leiden: Brill, 2001) 291-310
35. Beckheuer, Paulus und Jerusalem, 47; for Beckheuer Paul was zealously engaged in the organization of the collection when he wrote Galatians (49).
36. Doubts about partition theories have recently been expressed by T. Engberg-Pedersen, Paul and the Stoics (Edinburgh: Clark, 2000) ch. 4, who rightly remarks that such theories enjoy more support in German-speaking scholarship than in English-speaking (see, however, Schnelle, Einleitung, 150-3 and his far from unreasonable scepticism about such theories in general on pp. 86-8); on the other hand Engberg-Pedersen does regard Ephesus as the likeliest place of composition.
37. Cf. A. J. M. Wedderburn, Baptism and Resurrection: Studies in Pauline Theology against Its Graeco-Roman Background (WUNT 44; Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 1987) 85 with nn. 6 and 8. This elicited a letter from the late Prof. F. F. Bruce to the effect that praetorium is never used of the residence of the governor of a senatorial province such as Asia.
38. Cf. Beckheuer, Paulus und Jerusalem, 99.
39. Cf. Martyn, Galatians, 227. Beckheuer too (Paulus und Jerusalem, 122) mentions as a possible explanation the arrival in the meantime of unwelcome news from Galatia.
40. Cf. Beckheuer, Paulus und Jerusalem, 122.
41. So D.-A. Koch judges that this list does not stem from Luke: 'Kollektenbericht, "Wir"-Bericht und Itinerar: Neue (?) Überlegungen zu einem alten Problem', NTS 45 (1999) 367-90, here 375.
42. So, for instance, besides Koch, ibid., H. Conzelmann, Die Apostelgeschichte (HNT 7; Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 1963, 2nd edn 1972) 124
43. G. Lüdemann, Das frühe Christentum nach den Traditionen der Apostelgeschichte: ein Kommentar (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1987) 231.
44. pace J. Jervell, Die Apostelgeschichte [MeyerK 3; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1998] 498 n. 562
45. J. Gnilka, Paulus von Tarsus: Zeuge und Apostel (HTKNT Suppl. 6; Freiburg etc.: Herder, 1996) esp. 302
46. 'Die Kollekte', esp. 314; Jervell, Die Apostelgeschichte, 529-30
47. G. Lüdemann, Paulus, der Heidenapostel 2: Antipaulinismus im frühen Christentum (FRLANT 130; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1983) 94-8
48. idem, Das frühe Christentum, 245
49. Pesch, Die Apostelgeschichte, 2.222
50. J. Roloff, Die Apostelgeschichte (NTD 5; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1981) 313.
51. For the meaning of the adjective Derbaio cf. C.-J. Thornton, Der Zeuge des Zeugen: Lukas als Historiker der Paulusreisen (WUNT 56; Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 1991) 256-7
52. Cf. on the whole question of the 'we'-passages A. J. M. Wedderburn, 'The "We"-Passages in Acts: On the Horns of a Dilemma', ZNW 92 (2001) forthcoming.
53. Joubert, Paul as Benefactor, 124-5.
54. Roloff, Apostelgeschichte, 296
55. Beckheuer, Paulus und Jerusalem, 186, 202.
56. If indeed that chapter was part of the letter to Rome, as I think likely. (Cf. A. J. M. Wedderburn, The Reasons for Romans [Edinburgh: Clark, 1988] 12-18.)
57. So the majority reading, but cf. the 'Western' reading Doubevrio: Dvid itd, gig. At first sight it might seem that the reference to the far better known Derbe has replaced the obscure Doberus, but if a shrewd scribe or editor read 19.29 and assumed that it was the same Gaius who was there labelled a Macedonian, then it is possible that he searched for a Macedonian place-name whose adjectival form sounded similar; such erudition is not uncharacteristic of a number of the 'Western' readings. Then, however, there is the question whether the reference is to the Macedonian town or to the people of the Doberes, located in the region near Mt Pangaeus according to Hdt 7.113 (cf. again Thornton, Der Zeuge des Zeugen, 256-7).
58. For Joubert (Paul as Benefactor, 205)
59. cf. F. F. Bruce, The Acts of the Apostles (London: Tyndale, 1951, 2nd edn 1952) 424
60. Jervell, Die Apostelgeschichte, 498.
61. See the argument of Wedderburn, The Reasons for Romans.