Is Paul really an author?

[Gerd]

I'm not sure how we handle the, whatever those four are called from the Bible:

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

[Kim]

I'd be interested to see the answer to this one.

The first one, Ephesians, doesn't have an ISBN, so it's not a freestanding book. It's just a part of the Bible.

Technically, Paul is the author, but I think the commentators should be the author of these "publications." They look like textbooks, actually.

[Gerd]

The problem with keeping Paul as author, as I see it, is that we have to extent the same then to those other apostles that can be traced to real, historical persons and we would have to add Paul as author to at least those versions of the Bible that contain his part of it.

[Julie]

Kim wrote: "I'd be interested to see the answer to this one.

The first one, Ephesians, doesn't have an ISBN, so it's not a freestanding book. It's just a part of the Bible.

Technically, Paul is the author, ..."

[Julie]

That's correct and anything that would be a commentary of course is a book listed under that author.