Epistle to the Alexandrians
The Epistle to the Alexandrians is a
canonical texts of the New Testament. The anonymous author of the Muratorian canon considered this epistle as spurious, along with the Epistle to the Laodiceans, and both of them are stated to have been "forged in Paul's name to [further] the heresy of Marcion."[1][2]
: 24:35 Its text has been lost and nothing is known about its content.
Theologian
Joseph Lightfoot suggested there was hiatus after 'Pauli nomine', and that 'fincte' does not apply to the epistles to the Laodiceans nor the Alexandrians, but to mutilated epistles of Marcion, so that the author considered neither to be a forgery.[3]
See also
- Authorship of the Pauline epistles
- Development of the New Testament canon
- Marcionism § Marcionite canon
- Pauline epistles
References
- Bruce Metzger (translator). "The Muratorian fragment". EarlyChristianWritings.com. Retrieved 9 July 2018.)
{{cite web}}:|author=has generic name (help - ^ Bart D. Ehrman (2002). "21: Formation Of The New Testament Canon". Lost Christianities. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 6 July 2018.[dead YouTube link]
- ^ ISBN 9780198263418. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
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