Gastro-intestinal discomfort I've experienced over the past few months turned out to be gallstones passing. So last Tuesday I went under the knife for laproscopic cholesystectomy and am now a gallbladder-free individual. Amy says I'm cuter now than I've ever been. It must be love!

Anyway, I've been doing a bit of reading over the past few days while I get back up to speed. (Really, I'm doing fine!) Here's the list:

• J.B. Lightfoot. Apostolic Fathers Part I: Clement of Rome, Volumes I & II. I finished up vol 1 and began vol 2 which begins to deal with the writing we know as "Second Clement".
• Jerome D. Quinn. The Letter to Titus (amazon.com) (Anchor Bible). I read the introduction which is good. Quinn goes for pseudepigraphy and a suite of three epistles composed at once. At least, that's what I think he's saying. He reviews a lot of data but doesn't really come down to an "Here's what I think is going on" style conclusion.
• Luke Timothy Johnson. The First and Second Letters to Timothy (amazon.com) (Anchor Bible). Again, I've just read the introduction. It is excellent; everyone looking into the Pastorals should read it. Johnson interacts with the past century's criticisms of the Pastorals and concludes that while neither side (Pauline vs. non-Pauline) can prove claims, taking Paul as the author makes most sense of the available data. Preach it. Johnson also has a great section on patristic and medieval commentaries on the PE that is complete with volume/page number references to Patrologia Graeca and Patrologia Latina. Some of his descriptions of the material make me want to look up the commentaries and fight through the Greek, at least for select passages.
• Richard N. Longenecker, "Ancient Amanuenses in the Pauline Epistles", in Longenecker & Tenney, New Dimensions in New Testament Study (amazon.com). Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1974, pp. 281-297. I was spurred to re-read this by a footnote in L.T. Johnson's intro. Good stuff overall, but read E. Randolph Richards, Paul and First-Century Letter Writing (amazon.com) for a more comprehensive picture. However, this essay does have a quotable on stylometry/authorship studies from none other than W.F. Albright, responding to computer analysis of text by A.Q. Morton:

Since St. Paul's Greek was dictated to different amanuenses at different times and in different places, we could not possibly expect uniform quasi-literary style or vocabulary in his letters. For this reason attempts to determine the authorship of the Pauline Epistles by statistical data obtained with the use of computing machines prove little except the kind of literary Greek preferred by different amanuenses. (Longenecker quotes from W.F. Albright, "Retrospect and Prospect in New Testament Archaeology," The Teacher's Yoke, ed. E.J. Vardeman and J.L. Garrett (Waco, TX: 1964), pp. 28f.)

I've got some further JBL articles to read from footnotes in L.T. Johnson's 1&2Tim as well as the intro to Schneemelcher's NT Apocrypha (amazon.com).