All Articles tagged pastoral epistles
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May 01, 2018 BST A dissertation exploring the distinctiveness of the language of the Pastoral Epistles in relation to the wider Pauline corpus.
- Journal articles
November 01, 2017 BST The affirmation in 1 Timothy 2:5 that ‘there is one God’ is an ‘allusive echo’ of the Shema pointing the attentive reader to an intertextual interplay with it.
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May 01, 2017 BST The claim that motif-semantic differences indicate plural authorship of the pastoral epistles is called into question by applying the same methodology to 1 Thessalonians and Philippians.
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May 01, 2011 BST Similarities between Titus 2:11-14 and 1 Timothy 2:1-7 suggest that it is not valid to translate Titus 2:13 as: ‘The glorious appearing of our great God and Saviour, Jesus Christ.’
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May 01, 2011 BST Notwithstanding similarities between 1 Timothy 2:1-7 and Titus 2:11-14, Christopher Edwards’ arguments against translating Titus 2:13 as: ‘The glorious appearing of our great God and Saviour, Jesus Christ’ remain problematic.
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November 01, 2008 BST In both syntactic and semantic style the Pastoral Epistles have more affinity with written language than that of the rest of the Corpus Paulinum which more closely resembles (conceptual) orality.
- Dissertation summaries
May 01, 2006 BST A dissertation identifying 2 Timothy 4:1-8 as a particular literary form, rather than a farewell speech or last will and testament; a different understanding of the underlying situation results.
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November 01, 2004 BST τὸ μαρτύριον τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν is best understood simply as a reference to the testimony that the Lord bore in his word and life to the saving plan of God.
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November 01, 2002 BST A discussion of the ‘self-designations’ for their readers which were used in the Pastoral Epistles.
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May 01, 2002 BST John Calvin’s exegesis of πρὸ χρόνων αἰωνίων in 2 Timothy 1:9 and Titus 1:2 provides no reason for thinking that he rejected the Augustinian account of God’s timeless eternity.
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November 01, 2000 BST Evidence is presented which shows that the ‘new’ Roman wife was a contemporary perception which influenced the discussion of the role of the wife in 1 Timothy 2:9-15.
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November 01, 1995 BST It is more likely that the Pastoral Epistles develop Pauline theology at the juncture of first and second generation Christianity, rather than at the transition from second to third generations.
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May 01, 1993 BST The structural and figurative character of 1 Timothy 2:12 points to a reading which accounts for the proper sense of αὐθεντέω and the circumstances under which Paul’s injunction was given.
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May 01, 1988 BST An article examining certain puzzling aspects of I Timothy 5:3-16 in the context of the legal stipulations and social conventions surrounding widows and their support in the Graeco-Roman world.