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The Pastoral Epistles: A Commentary on the Pastoral Epistles is unavailable, but you can change that!

Of the many English commentaries on these letters, none are as replete with quotations from extra-biblical materials as this work by Conzelmann and Dibelius. The authors provide references to Hellenistic, Jewish and Christian sources, specifically as each pertains to the linguistic and conceptual problems the letters contain.

Roman imprisonment and a second imprisonment in the same place, which would have to be postulated. To be sure, one could hardly appeal to 1 Clem 5:7, as this passage seems to know of only one imprisonment. But if it should in fact know of two imprisonments, and (what is equally questionable) if it should be reliable, could Paul have visited the East again in the time between these Roman imprisonments?6 But one decisive objection exists to placing the Pastorals during the time between the two Roman
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