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Originally Posted by EatingPie
The books of Paul were "judged" by the Council of Laodicea to be written by Paul himself. Authorship was a key component to inclusion in the original Canon. There is one specific book which some Bibles attribute to Paul's, but its authorship remains in question, and that's Hebrews. But it passed other tests of authenticity to earn it a spot in the Canon, regardless of authorship.
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Modern scholarship, however, is pretty clear about which of the 13 letters Paul did or did not write.
7 of them are regarded as being almost unquestionably written by Paul, since they are referred to by many ancient sources and have an internally consistent literary style and vocabulary:
Romans,
1 & 2 Corinthians
Galatians
Philippians
1 Thessalonians
Philemon
The three so-call "Pastorial Epistles" (1 and 2 Timothy and Titus) were almost certainly NOT written by Paul (they use vocabulary and phraseology not found in any of the other Pauline Epistles).
The other three (Ephesians, Colossians, and 2 Thessalonians) are disputed; some scholars think they are genuine, others do not.
Note that nobody is suggesting that these are deliberate forgeries: it was common practice in the ancient world for followers of a philosphical school to write letters, or other works, in the name of the founder of that school, and that is almost certainly the origin of these letters - written by later followers of Paul's teachings, and given Paul's name to give them more "authority".
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Actually, you have to be careful here. More accurately, it's that bits may have been added over time. One scholar I know, Bob Siegel, studied the "floating passage" (The Adultrous Woman) and concluded it was actually removed by "some prude of a monk" as he puts it.
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I'm sure that you would accept, though, that this is a view that is at odds with the mainstream of scholastic view. There are more early copies of various parts of the NT existing than of any other ancient text (literally dozens of fragments from the 2nd and 3rd centuries, as well as the more complete texts such as the "Codex Vaticanus" and "Codex Sinaiticus") and this story appears in NONE of them.