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What if Goku had remembered his old friend Eighter? When Trunks told them about the Androids from the future, what if Goku had gone to Jingle Village with Bulma to ask Eighter for help?

How would the story have played out differently? Would they have discovered the emergency shutdown controllers sooner? Or might the Z Fighters have found Dr. Gero before he could activate the Androids? (Although Vegeta might have gotten in the way and prevented that from happening.)

This is a follow-up to a post I wrote previously. (And I apologize for not being able to respond promptly to the comments many of you left.)

Please note that the material below is an English translation of a Korean translation of the original text.

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(1) The authority of the foundational figures of the early Church continued to remain valid for later generations. Furthermore, we must consider the possibility that even the first readers already knew that the named author was a literary fiction. In the case of the Pastoral Epistles and Second Peter, it is reasonable to assume that at least the more educated members of the communities were aware of this. If so, the authority of a pseudonymous letter was generated not so much by the act of forgery itself as by the author's explicit identification with the tradition in which he stood. Through such an identification, the author sought to persuade his readers to accept that particular line of tradition.

(2) A pseudonymous letter situated itself within a specific intellectual and spiritual tradition. ... Even during Paul's lifetime, his close associates acted as his representatives, serving as co-senders of letters, couriers, and envoys dispatched to various communities. For example, according to 1 Corinthians 4:17, Timothy was entrusted with the task of reminding the Corinthian community of Paul's teachings. This practice of representation continued even after Paul's death.

— Stefan Schreiber, "Epistolary Literature in the New Testament," in Martin Ebner, Stefan Schreiber et al., Introduction to the New Testament (Einleitung in das Neue Testament, 2008), trans. Jong-han Lee (Seoul: Benedict Press, 2013), p. 399.

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From an academic perspective, is this position—that pseudonymous epistles were tolerated or accepted within the context of the Church's tradition of faith—generally regarded as apologetic in nature?

Are there biblical scholars with no particular religious commitment who also agree with this view, or at least regard it as a plausible possibility? Alternatively, is the dominant scholarly opinion that pseudonymous authorship in early Christianity should simply be understood as literary forgery in the ordinary sense?