The Pastoral Epistles: A Commentary on the Greek Text - Hardcover

by Stanley E. Porter (Author)

Leading New Testament scholar Stanley Porter offers a comprehensive commentary on the Pastoral Epistles that features rigorous biblical scholarship and emphasizes Greek language and linguistics.

This book breaks new ground in its interpretation of these controversial letters by focusing on the Greek text and utilizing a linguistically informed exegetical method that draws on various elements in contemporary language study. Porter pays attention to the overall argument of the Pastoral Epistles while also analyzing word meanings and grammatical structures to tease out the textual meaning. Porter addresses major exegetical issues that arise in numerous highly disputed passages and--while attentive to the history of scholarship on First Timothy, Second Timothy, and Titus--often takes untraditional or innovative positions to blaze a new path forward rather than adopt settled answers.

This commentary will appeal to professors, students, and scholars of the New Testament.

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"Presents a new and comprehensive reading of the Pastoral Letters"

Stanley Porter offers a comprehensive commentary on the Pastoral Epistles that features rigorous biblical scholarship and emphasizes Greek language and linguistics.

"Porter's commentary on the Pastoral Epistles is one of the most, if not the most, detailed grammatical commentaries on the Greek text. This commentary exhibits Porter's signature approach to Systemic Functional Linguistics and offers a plethora of new insights for scholarly discussion."
--Craig S. Keener, Asbury Theological Seminary

"Porter writes a different kind of commentary for the Pastoral Epistles, one devoted to an accessible linguistic interpretation of the Greek that helps the reader understand the language of the texts and their situational context."
--Cynthia Long Westfall, McMaster Divinity College

"This is the most thorough commentary in English since the 1999 commentary by Marshall. Porter's vast knowledge of linguistics and primary and secondary sources is on display in this magnificent commentary, which I suspect will become the standard for the exegesis of the Greek text."
--Osvaldo Padilla, Beeson Divinity School

"A much-needed book. Porter sheds fresh light on the Pastoral Epistles and the issues surrounding them, especially authorship, by applying a consistent and rigorous linguistic model (Systemic Functional Linguistics) and placing emphasis where it belongs, on the Greek text. No one will want to study these books without recourse to Porter's meticulous, judicious, and thought-provoking work."
--David L. Mathewson, Denver Seminary

"This is not just one commentary among many but a unique commentary on the Greek text of the Pastoral Letters. It is intensive and detailed, consistent, thorough and encyclopedic, and extensive. This is a commentary full of original interpretations that presents a new and comprehensive reading of the Pastoral Letters."
--Jes俍 Pel疇z, University Cdoba, Spain

"Through rigorous application of Formal Systemic Functional Grammar, Porter sets forth a reading that will provoke and inform constructive discussion for years to come, not least because of conclusive arguments advanced for Pauline authorship."
--Robert W. Yarbrough, Covenant Theological Seminary

Author Biography

Stanley E. Porter (PhD, University of Sheffield) is president, dean, professor of New Testament, and Roy A. Hope Chair in Christian Worldview at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario. He has authored or edited more than 130 books, including Sacred Tradition in the New Testament, Linguistic Analysis of the Greek New Testament, The Synoptic Problem, Interpretation for Preaching and Teaching, and Origins of New Testament Christology.