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After a lengthy period during which scholars paid relatively little attention to the Pastoral Epistles, a spate of studies has suddenly appeared in print. However, except for a small number of commentaries, critical scholars have by and large neglected evangelical scholarship on these letters. To fill in this gap, this volume offers a collection of important essays written by evangelicals on 1 &...

PE are genuine. Lastly, I will survey contemporary scholarship on pseudonymity and the Pastorals and draw an extended conclusion. Scholars who hold to the inauthenticity of the Pastorals stress that the vocabulary and style of these letters differ from the other Pauline epistles.3 To be sure, many words found in the PE do not occur in the other Pauline writings4—for example, the term “godliness” (εὐσέβεια, 1 Tim 6:11). Moreover, 175 different
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