281 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 John James John Peter John Peter Jude The size of each proportion is, of course, no measure of the relative importance of the books involved 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 ... unsettled question of authorship of Hebrews Hebrews John James John Peter John Peter Jude The size of each proportion is, of course, no measure of the relative importance of the books involved... 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. .. 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);