Rudolf Steck


Johann Rudolf Julius Steck was a Swiss reformed theologian and writer.
Steck was a pastor of the Reformed Church, Dresden. From 1881 to 1921 he was Professor of Theology at the University of Bern. He was influenced by the writings of Bruno Bauer and was a proponent of the Christ myth theory. He believed that the Pauline epistles were a case of second century pseudepigrapha.
Steck argued that the Pauline letters were written by a school of people.

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