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23. James Stalker, The Life of St. Paul, pp.
142-43.
The Non-Pauline Epistles
The New Testament may be divided into
four main groups: historical accounts,
Pauline epistles, non-Pauline epistles, and
apocalypse. The
ve historical books
(gospels and Acts) make up almost sixty
percent of the Bible text; the Pauline
epistles, about twenty-four percent; the nonPauline epistles, about ten percent; and the
apocalypse (Revelation), six percent.1 So far
we have surveyed the books of the rst two
groups; the remaining two groups follow.
Listed below are the eight non-Pauline
epistles. These books are classi ed as nonPauline because none bears the name of Paul
as author. The anonymous epistle to the
Hebrews may have originated with Paul. All
the books except Hebrews are sometimes
referred to as general epistles. This vague
designation was attached to the seven books
during the centuries of the early church for
a combination of reasons: general or joint
apostolic authorship of the group; general
scope of the recipients (no local churches
addressed); general in content.2 Actually
there is no group title that clearly and fully
identi es all the books from Hebrews to
Jude in the New Testament canon. We will
use the designation “non-Pauline,” keeping
in mind the unsettled question of authorship
of Hebrews.
Hebrews 1 John
James
2 John
1 Peter 3 John
2 Peter Jude
1. The size of each proportion is, of course,
no measure of the relative importance of
the books involved.
2. D. Edmond Hiebert, An Introduction to the
New Testament, 3:16. Read this work, pages
15-25, for a discussion of the non-Pauline
epistles.
