Harding, Mark: Tradition and Rhetoric in the Pastoral Epistles

This book investigates the rhetoric by which the Epistles' author commended his actualization of the Pauline tradition. The strategies that the author uses derive from the sphere of ancient letter-writing and from oratory. Much of the debate concerning the Pastoral Epistles of the New Testament (1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, and Titus) has concentrated on the question of their authorship. The most reasonable explanation for them is that they were written in a post-Pauline context by one committed to commending his interpretation of Paul's legacy to his audience in order to secure it against the inroads of false teachers. XIII,253 Seiten, gebunden (Studies in Biblical Literature; Vol. 3/Peter Lang Verlag 1998) Mängelexemplar/near mint