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The pastoral epistles are a group of three books of the canonical New Testament: the First Epistle to Timothy (1 Timothy), the Second Epistle to Timothy (2 Timothy), and the Epistle to Titus. They are presented as letters from Paul the Apostle to Timothy and to Titus. However, many scholars believe they were written after Paul's death. They are generally discussed as a group and are given the title pastoral because they are addressed to individuals with pastoral oversight of churches and discuss issues of Christian living, doctrine and leadership. The term "pastorals" was popularized in 1703 by D. N. Berdot and in 1726 by Paul Anton.[1] Alternate nomenclature for the cluster of three letters has been proposed: "Corpus Pastorale," meant to highlight the intentional forgery of the letters as a three-part corpus,[2] and "Letters to Timothy and Titus," meant to emphasize the individuality of the letters.[3]
^Donald Guthrie, (2009), "The Pastoral Epistles," Inter-Varsity Press, ISBN 978-0-8308-4244-5, p. 19; Guthrie is referring to David Nicolaus Berdot, Exercitatio theologica-exegetica in epistulam S. Pauli ad Titum (Halle, 1703), and Paul Anton, Exegetische Abhandlung der Pastoral-briefe Pauli an Timotheum und Titum, im Jahr 1725. und 1726. öffentlich vorgetragen (ed. Johann August Majer; 2 vols.; Halle: Wäysenhaus, 1753–55).
^This nomenclature appears to have been first proposed by Peter Trummer, “Corpus Paulinum—Corpus Pastorale: Zur Ortung der Paulustradition in den Pastoralbriefen,” in Paulus in den neutestamentlichen Spätschriften: Zur Paulusrezeption im Neuen Testament (ed. K. Kertelge; Quaestiones Disputatae 89; Freiburg: Herder, 1981), 122–45.
^Influential in this regard is Philip H. Towner, The Letters to Timothy and Titus (New International Commentary on the New Testament; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006), esp. 88.
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that there are considerably more of them in the three PastoralEpistles than in other Pauline Epistles. He argued that the number of hapax legomena in a putative...
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referred to as epistles. Those traditionally attributed to Paul are known as Pauline epistles and the others as catholic (i.e., "general") epistles. The ancient...
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these letters have been labelled the Johannine epistles, despite the fact that none of the epistles mentions any author. Most modern scholars believe...
for the disputed epistles raises many problems. Today, Paul's epistles continue to be vital roots of the theology, worship and pastoral life in the Latin...
greet the Lord in the air. Authorship of the Pauline epistles Imitation of Christ Second Epistle to the Thessalonians The book is sometimes called the...
Reconsideration of Certain Arguments Against the Pauline Authorship of the PastoralEpistles. The Expository Times 1970; pp. 91-99. Bauckham 1983, 144. Bauckham...
many of the same motifs espoused in Ephesians, Colossians, and the PastoralEpistles. Others argue that it makes little sense to ascribe the work to Peter...
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likely, due to use of certain terminology in ways similar to the pastoralepistles that match a late first century date. Jude urges his readers to "contend...
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of Christian sacred scriptures, which contained ten Pauline epistles (the Pastoralepistles were not included) and the Gospel of Marcion which historically...
G. Preston MacLeod], Thessalonians, PastoralEpistles [The First and Second Epistles to Timothy, and the Epistle to Titus], Philemon, Hebrews TNJBC =...
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Johannine community produced the Gospel of John and the three Johannine epistles, while John of Patmos wrote the Book of Revelation separately. The book...
Kennedy, "Are There Two Epistles in 2 Corinthians?" The Expositor 6 (1897); reprinted in idem, The Second and Third Epistles of St. Paul to the Corinthians...
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initial collector may have been, or when the first collection of Pauline epistles may have been published.: 26 Today, a number of scholars believe that...
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