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The Letter to Titus: A New Translation with Notes and Commentary and An Introduction to Titus, I and II Timothy, The Pastoral Epistles is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Letter to Titus, one of the three “Pastoral Epistles” of the New Testament, has over the last twenty years become the ground of intense controversy—theologically, sociologically, even politically. For this letter (like its companions, I and II Timothy) dates to a time when the Apostles are gone and a new church leadership is evolving. In Titus we read instruction that is of continuing...

these letters were actually written by a member of the Pauline entourage and dispatched under Paul’s authority at various times in the fifties and early sixties of the first Christian century (thus, in various forms, Jeremias, Kelly, Holtz, and Fee; see also the special studies by Dockx, Chronologies; Lestapis, L’Enigme; Reicke, “Chronologie”; W. Metzger, Die letzte Reise; and Prior, Paul). When an interest in gathering the apostle’s correspondence began at the end of the first century, the PE were
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