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The First and Second Letters to Timothy: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

The letters of Paul to Timothy, one of his favorite delegates, often make for difficult reading in today’s world. They contain much that makes modern readers uncomfortable, and much that is controversial, including pronouncements on the place of women in the Church and on homosexuality, as well as polemics against the so-called “false teachers.” They have also been of a source of questions within...

community in its adjustment.222 An alternative proposal sees the Pastorals in terms of a conservative reaction within Pauline Christianity. In this view, Paul is being championed by groups that the author perceives as dangerous, and the Pastorals are written in order to advance a more conservative form of the Pauline tradition. One version considers Paul to be the hero of ascetic Christians who celebrate the active and itinerant missionary activity of women, the way Thecla is associated with Paul
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