The Library Edition is a hardcover edition. Each volume is separated into its own hardcover book.
By What Authority? is a five-volume scholarly argument that Paul's letters in the canonical New Testament were selectively edited in the second century. Every identified edit moves Paul in the same direction: toward law-continuity, covenant affirmation, institutional hierarchy, and submission to authority. The edits are not random. They are directional.
The argument rests on five independent lines of evidence: structural ruptures in Paul's Greek text, writing-style anomalies identified by mainstream scholars working without any Marcionite agenda, Marcion's second-century canon as hostile-witness confirmation, manuscript instability at precisely the contested passages, and the institutional motive that makes each addition load-bearing. Each line can be checked independently.
Companion A - The Verse-by-Verse Analysis is the complete adjudication record for the interpolation argument. It is designed for scholarly consultation. Every passage assessed in the series receives an entry here.
Each entry records: the passage reference and classification (Authentic, Suspect, or Interpolation); the active signal codes (Marcionite absence, writing-style shift, structural rupture, hostile-witness silence, institutional utility, and others); the confidence score computed by probabilistic union across the active signals; and a full analytical note giving the evidence, the patristic sources, the manuscript witnesses, and the reasoning behind the classification.
The companion covers all ten letters in Apostolikon order: Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Laodiceans/Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, and Philemon. Philemon serves as an explicit null-hypothesis control: the method produces zero interpolation flags on the universally authentic letter.
Appendices include the Marcion's Evangelion evidence note, a key Greek terms reference, manuscript witnesses to flagged passages, the full methodology including signal definitions and weight assignments, and the Philemon control analysis.
The underlying dataset and interactive analysis workbench are freely available online. Every figure in this companion can be reproduced from that dataset. No institutional access is required.
Series: By What Authority? - Companion A. Released under CC BY-SA 4.0. No institution. No publisher. Freely shared.
