Pastoral Epistles General Introduction

Alternate Labels

• Timothy, Epistles to
• Epistles, Pastoral
• Titus, Epistle to
• Pastoral Letters
• Timothy and Titus, Epistles to
• Philemon, Epistle to

Web Links

• Pauline Authorship and the Pastoral Epistles: Implications for Canon by Stanley E. Porter
• Heresy and the Pastoral Epistles by Oskar Skarsaune
• OBSERVATIONS ON THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE PASTORAL EPISTLES by Dennis W. Jowers

Key Passages

Reading List

• Self-Testimony Regarding Authorship, Recipients, Setting, and Purposes | Intro – The New International Greek Testament Commentary: The Pastoral Epistles

• Introduction | Intro – A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Pastoral Epistles

• Title Page | The Significance of Salvation: A Study of Salvation Language in the Pastoral Epistles

• Introduction | The IVP New Testament Commentary Series: 1-2 Timothy & Titus

• Pastoral Letters | Dictionary of Paul and His Letters

• Timothy and Titus, Epistles To | The New Bible Dictionary, Third Edition

• Asceticism and Ideology: The Language of Power in the Pastoral Epistles | Semeia 57: Discursive Formations, Ascetic Piety and the Interpretation of Early Christian Literature, Part 1

• Paraenesis and the Pastoral Epistles: Lexical Observations Bearing on the Nature of the Sub-genre and Soundings on Its Role in Socialization and Liturgies | Semeia 50: Paraenesis: Act and Form

• The Pastoral Epistles | New Dictionary of Biblical Theology