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The Four Criteria for Barclay's Letters
Barry Berkeley: Is there a certain problem that keeps re surfacing er pall keeps addressing? What types of statements does he use to address it? And can i infer from that the actual language or theology of the group that he has to do? The next criteria is frequency. In some letters, like in first corinthians, paul is explicitly shifting topics, topic to topic to topic. A fourth criteria for barcley, as he says, consistency. This is also a time to use a lot of different translations. Because tone, oh, ye, can differ. It's really hard to convey tone in written language.