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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...

upon these books.” Roughly one-third of the words in the PE (names of persons and places aside) do not appear in the other Paulines; almost one-fifth do not appear elsewhere in the NT (though the overwhelming majority of them do appear in Greek documents that predate 50 C.E., including Philo and the LXX). The language of the PE has notable resemblances to that of Luke–Acts (Strobel, “Schreiben des Lukas?”; Quinn, Perspectives; S. Wilson, Lk PE; Marshall, “Review”; Moule, Birth, pp. 264–265, 281–282;
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