The Catholic epistles as discourses echoing the mises en scène in Acts 15 and Galatians 2

The author looks at the pseudepigraphy of the so called “Catholic Epistles” (CE) from a synchronic and literary angle, reformulating Robert Wall’s insight into a canonical structuration of NT letters: these epistolary discourses would echo the mise en scène of Acts 15 and Gal 2, establishing a dialogue between the characters Peter, James, John and Paul. In other words, the CE would be an answer to the Pauline Epistles (PE). The hypothesis is built on some understanding of narratology, pseudepigraphy, canon, and collection as described, and opens new ways to look at the relationship between the two letters corpus of the NT and eventually renew NT theology. In conclusion, some methodological reflection is proposed for the analysis of the triangular relationship, Acts/PE/CE.