Mirror-Reading a Pseudepigraphal Letter
Mirror-Reading a Pseudepigraphal Letter is a scholarly work, published in 2017 in ''Novum Testamentum''. The main subjects of the publication include verisimilitude, rhetorical question, reading, ostensive definition, epistemology, Christianity and Islam, literature, linguistics, philosophy, and biblical studies. This study investigates the implications of pseudonymity for the interpretative process, arguing that authors need to take into account the pseudepigraphal attempt to achieve a “reality effect” by employing tropes and concerns from authentic Pauline letters to lend the forged writing an air of verisimilitude.