https://brill.com/display/title/36019
So far the reviews that I have access to on this book all seem fairly positive, but I am sure that there must be some negative ones out there.In Pauline Language and the Pastoral Epistles Jermo van Nes questions the common assumption in New Testament scholarship that language variation is necessarily due to author variation. By using the so-called Pastoral Epistles (PE) as a test-case, Van Nes demonstrates by means of statistical linguistics that only one out of five of their major lexical and syntactic peculiarities differs significantly from other Pauline writings. Most of the PE’s linguistic peculiarities are shown to differ considerably in the Corpus Paulinum, but modern studies in classics and linguistics suggest that factors other than author variation account equally if not better for this variation. Since all of these explanatory factors are compatible with current authorship hypotheses of the PE, Van Nes suggests to no longer use language as a criterion in debates about their authenticity.
For various reasons I want to start ensuring I read works with a counter view to this as well but am not sure where to start. What are people's thoughts on the best resources arguing that the Pastoral Epistles are not written by Paul based on linguistic grounds?
I came across this recent phd thesis on the pastorals by James Fickensher "A RANK-BASED ANALYSIS OF WORD ORDER AND CODIFICATION IN THE GREEK
OF THE PASTORAL EPISTLES" - figured people may be interested. https://scholar.csl.edu/cgi/viewcontent ... ontext=phd