A Pseudepigraphon Inside a Pseudepigraphon? The Seneca–Paul Correspondence and the Letters Added Afterwards

Earlier versions of this study were presented at lectures and seminars at the Theological Institute ‘Leoniano’, Anagni (Rome), in March 2009, at the conference Bilingüismo social y literario: bajo el imperio de Roma, Pamplona, Universidad de Navarra, 8–9 October 2009, at the SNTS General Meeting in Berlin, 28–31 July 2010, at the CA Annual Meeting, Durham, April 2011, at New York University in November 2011, and at the SBL Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November 2011, session: Function of Apocryphal and Pseudepigraphal Writings in Early Judaism and Early Christianity. I am grateful to all colleagues, friends, and students in attendance for stimulating discussion, and especially to Erich Gruen in San Francisco, Mary Rose D'Angelo, Karen King, Andreas Lindemann, and Margaret Mitchell in Berlin, Raffaella Cribiore and David Konstan in New York, Margherita Cecchelli and Lorenzo Bianchi in Rome, and Martin Hose in Pamplona. Special thanks to Loren Stuckenbruck and the anonymous readers of this JSP for their helpful comments.