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- ↑ Van Kooten, George H. (2001). The Pauline Debate on the Cosmos: Graeco-Roman Cosmology and Jewish Eschatology in Paul and in the Pseudo-Pauline Letters to the Colossians and the Ephesians (PhD thesis). Leiden, Netherlands: Leiden University. OCLC 782992774.
- ↑ University of Cambridge, Faculty of Divinity
- ↑ Van Kooten, George (30 June 1995). "The literary phenomenon of 'conflation' in the reworking of Paul's letter to the Colossians by the author of the letter to the Ephesians" (PDF). Durham University. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
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