It Seems to Me the Bible is AI

I'm nearly finished with the book, The Letters of Paul in Their Roman Literary Context; Reassessing Apostolic Authorship by Professor Nina E. Livesay. The case she makes is that there was no "Paul." Instead, there were schools or groups studying under the tutelage of wealthy and literate men in the years surrounding 200 CE. These wealthy "professors" had various views, probably often self-serving, they wanted to promote in the public of that time. They used their "schools" to teach students, from wealthy families no doubt, how to write and circulate the ideas and philosophies their wealthy "professors" were all about. 

A reviewer said the case made by Professor Livesay bordered on airtight. While it destroyed the narrative of Paul walking about starting churches and sending them letters that we read today he, himself, had trouble leaving behind the romantic narrative of the traveling preacher changing the world.

Professor Livesay documents there were at least 40 of these "schools" cranking out trained writers and organizers around the year 200 CE. The writing, entertainment and propaganda technique of the day was the "letter." These were not letters written and mailed to individuals or groups, they were position papers intended for general circulation. They were written in a specific style to be read aloud. Surviving information about teaching this technique give examples of how to write such a "letter." Today we have something similar, the "Open Letter." We someone of note publishes an "open letter" everyone knows it is form of press release, not a letter to be mailed.  

"Paul" of the New Testament was not a real person who lived a couple of decades after Jesus was supposed to have lived but was a fictional person created by a variety of those students trained to write such material around the year 200 CE. The various "Pauline" material was written by many and, no doubt, altered over time by many scribes. 

In my limited understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI) it is a mathematical way to sort through written material and reposition it in ways selected by the person using it. "Pauline" writing in the Bible is similar. For example, by the year 200 CE, circumcision was no longer as popular with Jews as it had been 200 years earlier. "Paul", the group of writers from the elite and trained group in the year 200 CE, began writing/preaching what Jews and Pagans of the time were already saying, circumcision was not important.  

I will never be able to read "Paul" of the Bible in the old way again.