As a Western individualist, I immediately dismiss this. Paul couldn’t really mean that they worked together to write the letter. Western scholars suggest that it just means Silas and Timothy are sending their greetings. Yet, when Timothy sends greetings, it is at the end of a letter: “Timothy, my co-worker, sends his greetings to you, as do Lucius, Jason and Sosipater, my fellow Jews” (Rom 16:21). Other scholars
