The authorship of the Pastoral Letters has long been a matter of intense scholarly debate. The arguments have centered on the question of whether Paul or a gifted pseudonymist composed these letters. Dr. Miller argues against both these positions, suggesting that no single author can be held responsible for much of this material. He takes the reader on a wide-ranging tour of biblical and extra-biblical sources, examining their literary histories, and concludes that the Pastorals are composite documents based on brief, but genuine, Pauline notes, written to Timothy and Titus.

James D. Miller is an IBM Certified Expert, Master Consultant, and application/system architect with over 35 years of applications and system design/development experience across multiple platforms, technologies, and data formats, including big data. His experience includes IBM Planning Analytics, BI, web architecture/design, systems analysis, GUI design/testing, data modeling, and OLAP design/development. He has also worked on client/server, web, and mainframe applications. He has authored numerous books, including Implementing Splunk, Second Edition; Mastering Splunk, Hands-On Machine Learning with IBM Watson, Watson Projects, Statistics for Data Science, and Mastering Predictive Analytics with R, Second Edition.

1. Introduction; 2. Religious writings as collections; 3. I Timothy: a compositional analysis; 4. II Timothy: a compositional analysis; 5. Titus: a compositional analysis; 6. Summary and conclusions; Appendix A: The Pastorals: compositions or collections; Appendix B: A formal analysis of the Pastorals; Letters; Bibliography.