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1 & 2 Timothy and Titus: A Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Pastoral Epistles present difficult questions for the modern interpreter, including such matters as their authorship, literary characteristics, and social orientations. Raymond Collins carefully leads the reader through the texts of these three documents, attending to the flow of the pastor’s thought and locating it within the Jewish and Hellenistic culture of his day.

One of the main purposes of testamentary literature is to encourage those who have been left behind to carry on the legacy of the departed person. The encouragement often takes the form of an exhortation. The first exhortation in 2 Timothy is structured chiastically as an a-b-c-b’-a’ pattern in which the two a and b elements correspond with one another. At the center of the scheme is the hymn-like 1:9–10. This is the focal point around which the other elements of
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