(Ebook) Prolegomena to St Paul’s Epistles to the Romans and the Ephesians by Fenton John Anthony Hort ISBN 9781108007511, 1108007511

(Ebook) Prolegomena to St Paul’s Epistles to the Romans and the Ephesians by Fenton John Anthony Hort ISBN 9781108007511, 1108007511

This posthumous volume, published in 1895, contains two lectures delivered in the 1880s by the biblical scholar F. J. A. Hort, Professor of Divinity at Cambridge. In these lectures, Hort addresses the question of the dating of Romans and Ephesians, their purpose, and their original readership. He examines their context in the relationship of Judaism to Christianity in the Apostolic period and the difference between Gentile, Judaistic and Roman Christianity. By treating the Epistles as historical as well as religious artefacts and analysing their language and grammar as well as content, Hort argues for the authenticity of both texts and therefore for a first-century dating. The dating of the New Testament was a central concern of Hort toward the end of his career, and he argued against F. C. Baur and the Tubingen school, who placed it in the second century. These lectures present evidence to support his argument.

The true date of publication is 1895

This is a re-publication and the date of this is 2009

Fenton John Anthony Hort FSA, known as F. J. A. Hort, was an Irish-born theologian and editor, with Brooke Foss Westcott of a critical edition of The New Testament in the Original Greek. --> Wikipedia

This edition of the Greek NT has been superseded by the Nestle Alland edition now in its 26th edition (NA28).

Born: 23 April 1828, Dublin, Ireland 

Died: 30 November 1892, Cambridge, United Kingdom