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The most accessible, most broadly pitched full-length commentary on Timothy and Titus, this NICNT volume explores Paul’s three letters to Timothy and Titus within their historical, religious, and cultural settings. In his introduction, Towner sets out the rationale for his historical approach, questions certain assumptions of recent critical scholarship, and establishes the uniqueness and...

INTRODUCTION AND AGENDA 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy and Titus have been known as “the Pastoral Epistles” (PE) from about the eighteenth century,1 but as early as the second century they had been grouped together within the broader Pauline corpus.2 In the course of New Testament interpretation, this grouping has undeniably had some adverse consequences. There are, however, good reasons for considering these three letters together—they are unique within the Pauline corpus—though this by no means permits interpreters
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