Prolegomena to St Paul's Epistles to the Romans and the Ephesians [Paperback]

Hort's two 1880s lectures on Romans and Ephesians discuss the textual and contextual evidence for their attribution to St Paul.These lectures on the Epistles to the Romans and Ephesians by the noted Cambridge biblical scholar F. J. A. Hort, published posthumously in 1895, analyse the historical, linguistic, and grammatical evidence in the texts and argue in favour of their first-century origins and their attribution to St Paul.These lectures on the Epistles to the Romans and Ephesians by the noted Cambridge biblical scholar F. J. A. Hort, published posthumously in 1895, analyse the historical, linguistic, and grammatical evidence in the texts and argue in favour of their first-century origins and their attribution to St Paul.This posthumous volume, published in 1895, contains two lectures delivered in the 1880s by the biblical scholar F. J. A. Hort, Professor of Divinity at Cambridge. In these lectures, Hort addresses the question of the dating of Romans and Ephesians, their purpose, and their original readership. He examines their context in the relationship of Judaism to Christianity in the Apostolic period and the difference between Gentile, Judaistic and Roman Christianity. By treating the Epistles as historical as well as religious artefacts and analysing their language and grammar as well as content, Hort argues for the authenticity of both texts and therefore for a first-century dating. The dating of the New Testament was a central concern of Hort toward the end of his career, and he argued against F. C. Baur and the T?bingen school, who placed it in the second century. These lectures present evidence to support his argument.1. Epistle to the Romans; 2. Epistle to the Ephesians; 3. Abstract of lectures on Ephesians.