The Pauline epistles are the thirteen books in the New Testament traditionally attributed to Paul the Apostle.
Saint Paul Writing His Epistles, 17th-century painting. Most scholars think Paul actually dictated his letters to a secretary, for example Romans 16:22, cites a scribe named Tertius. According to 2 Thessalonians 3,17, Paul authenticated all of his letters with the final greeting and signature.
Schematic of Colossians, William Brooks Taylor (1910)
Papyrus 49, a 3rd-century manuscript of the Epistle to the Ephesians
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn 163
Paul the Apostle
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Paul, commonly known as Paul the Apostle or Saint Paul, was a Christian apostle who spread the teachings of Jesus in the first century AD. For his contributions towards the New Testament, he is genera
Authorship of the Pauline epistles
…The Pauline epistles are the thirteen books in the New Testament traditionally attributed to Paul the Apostle. There is strong consensus in modern New Testament scholarship on a core group of authentic Pauline epistles whose authorship is rarely contested…
Painting in the Grotto of St. Paul, Ephesus, late 5th century
The Apostle Paul, portrait by Rembrandt (c. 1657)
The Conversion of Saul, a fresco by Michelangelo developed between 1542 and 1545
Conversion on the Way to Damascus, a 1601 portrait by Caravaggio