What is the original of 2 Corinthians? We cannot say!
Notes from Prof. Bart Ehrman's analysis of 2 Corinthians:
2 Corinthians, is one of the Pauline epistles. It was
written to his congregation in the city of Corinth
The theoretical problems Dr Bart Ehrman outlines in
considering the original text of 2 Corinthians:
1. There's good evidence Paul dictated his letters to
scribes. Suppose Paul dictated 2 Corinthians and the scribe made mistakes in
rendering Paul's words into text.
Is the original text what the scribe wrote or what Paul
dictated?
This is not a big point of contention.
2. Paul did not write 2 Corinthians as it has come to us
today. Scholars have long recognised for over a century that 2 Corinthians is
made up of two different letters spliced together; chapters 10-13 do not come
from the same letter as chapters 1 to 9!
[This problem could be compounded as there's a large number
of scholars in Europe and the US
Whichever way you look at it 2 Corinthians we have is not
originally from Paul. It's from whoever amalgamated the different letters (2, 5
or however many letters were used to make up 2 Corinthians).
3. This gets messier still. The original letters from Paul
may have gone through scribal change prior to them being amalgamated by the
unknown person. This amalgam would then have gone through scribal change prior
to the earliest complete manuscript of 2 Corinthians c. 350CE.
How can somebody truly say 2 Corinthians is from Paul? They
cannot.
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