Social-Science Commentary on the Deutero-Pauline Letters

312 Pages·2013·1.827 MB·English

by  Bruce J. Malina, John J. Pilch

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Commentary on the Synoptic Gospels (2nd edition 2003); Social-Science Commentary on the Gospel

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Social-Science Commentary on the Book of Acts (2008) and the Social-Science Commentary on the
Letters of Paul (2005), both from Fortress Press.
Religion/New Testament Bruce J. Malina
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John J. Pilch
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SOCIAL-SCIENCE COMMENTARY ON
THE DEUTERO-PAULINE LETTERS

SOCIAL-SCIENCE
COMMENTARY ON
THE DEUTERO-
PAULINE LETTERS
BRUCE J. MALINA AND JOHN J.
PILCH
Fortress Press
Minneapolis
SOCIAL-SCIENCE COMMENTARY ON THE DEUTERO-PAULINE LETTERS
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CONTENTS
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Abbreviations ix
Preface xi
Introduction 1
1. Ephesians 13
2. Colossians 31
3. 2 Thessalonians 53
4. The Pastoral Epistles: 1-2 Timothy and Titus 67
5. Titus 71
6. 1 Timothy 93
7. 2 Timothy 143
8. Hebrews 163
Bibliography 217
Reading Scenarios for the Deutero-Pauline Letters 223
List of Reading Scenarios 297
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Social-Science Commentary on the Synoptic Gospels,2nd ed. (2003)
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Abbreviations
AABBDDTheAnchorBibleDictionary.EditedbyDavidNoelFreedman.6vols.New
York: Doubleday, 1992.
AANNRRWWAufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt
AVAuthorized Version
bb.Babylonian Talmud
BBTTBBBiblical Theology Bulletin
CCBBQQCatholic Biblical Quarterly
DankerAGreek-EnglishLexiconoftheNewTestamentandOtherEarlyChristian
Literature.Revised and edited by Frederick W. Danker. 3rd ed. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2000
JBJerusalem Bible
JJBBLLJournal of Biblical Literature
JJSSNNTTJournal for the Study of the New Testament
KJVKing James Version
LCLLoeb Classical Library
LSJLiddell,H.G.,R.Scott,H.S.Jones,A Greek-English Lexicon.9thed.with
revised supplement. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
LXXSeptuagint
NABNew American Bible
NEBNew English Bible
NNIIDDBB New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible.Edited by Katharine Doob
Sakenfeld. 5 vols. Nashville: Abingdon, 2006–9.
NJBNew Jerusalem Bible
NRSVNew Revised Standard Version of the Bible
NNTTSSNew Testament Studies
PPGG Patrologia cursus completus: Series graeca.Edited by J.-P. Migne. 162 vols.
Paris, 1857–86.
RSVRevised Standard Version
TTDDNNTT Theological Dictionary of the New Testament.Edited by G. Kittel and G.
Friedrich. Translated by G. W. Bromiley. 10 vols. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans,
1964–76.
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