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Of the many English commentaries on these letters, none are as replete with quotations from extra-biblical materials as this work by Conzelmann and Dibelius. The authors provide references to Hellenistic, Jewish and Christian sources, specifically as each pertains to the linguistic and conceptual problems the letters contain.

Judaism seems to play a great role, precisely in the Christianity attested by the Pastoral Epistles (see above at 1:17*). Others interpret “the word of God” as the divine word of creation.6 The “False Teachers” of the Pastoral Epistles The passages in the Pastorals devoted to the controversy with false teachers are as follows: 1 Tim 4:1–10*; 2 Tim 3:1–9*; Tit 1:10–16*; 1 Tim 1:3–11*; 6:3–5*, 20f*; 2 Tim 2:14*, 23*; 3:13*; 4:3*, 4*; Tit 3:9–11*; in addition to these are
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