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I have long had an interest in the Pastoral Epistles. In 2003, I began studying them in earnest by working through their vocabulary, outlining them, and generally digging as deep as I could.

As I worked through the vocabulary I consulted the standard lexicons. I began looking up cited examples of words occurring outside of the Greek New Testament. It didn’t take me long to stand in awe of the writings of early Christian writers such as Clement of Rome, Ignatius, and Polycarp.

My eyes were opened to a new world, but it was unfortunately a world that only seems to live as seldomly-consulted citations in commentaries and lexicons. But there is explanatory power in these references. So I began on a project to explore the vocabulary of the Pastoral Epistles, consulting ...

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About First Timothy

To responsibly exegete the text of First Timothy, one must become familiar with the vocabulary. But examination of word meanings involves more than simply looking up words in a lexicon and choosing a gloss that seems appropriate.

Rick Brannan evaluates the vocabulary of the First Timothy in light of the New Testament, the Septuagint (LXX), the Apostolic Fathers, the works of Philo, the works of Josephus, the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, and other material. Many commentaries and other works of exegesis mention material from these sources to provide background information or examples of word usage, duly noting references to such works in footnotes or endnotes. Brannan’s work, however, provides full quotations (in translation) of the relevant references. Instead of relegating these citations to footnotes that are seldom if ever looked up, the cited text itself is reproduced for the reader to evaluate.

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