The Pastoral Epistles: A Commentary on the Pastoral Epistles

207 Pages·1989·71.62 MB·English

by  by Martin Dibelius (Author)

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Hermeneia
-A Critical
and Historical
Commentary
on the Bible
Old Testament Editorial Board
Frank Moore Cross, Harvard University, chairman
Klaus Baltzer, University of Munich
Paul D. Hanson, Harvard University
S. Dean McBride, Jr., Union Theological Seminary in Virginia
Peter Machinist, Harvard University
Susan Niditch, Amherst College
Christopher R. Seitz, Yale University
Roland E. Murphy, 0. Carm., emeritus
New Testament Editorial Board
Helmut Koester, Harvard University, chairman
Harold W. Attridge, University of Notre Dame
Adela Yarbro Collins, University of Chicago
Eldon jay Epp. Case Western Reserve University
James M. Robinson, Claremont Graduate School
The Pastora I Epistles
A Commentary on
the Pastoral Epistles
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by Martin Dibelius
and Hans Conzelmann
Translated by
Philip Buttalph and
Adela Yarbro
Edited by
Helmut Koester
Fortress
·Press Philadelphia
Translated from the German Die Pastoralbritje by
Martin Dibeliust; fourth, revised edition by Hans
Conzelmann. Handbuch zum Neuen Testament
begriindet von Hans Lietzmann in Verbindung mit
Fachgenossen, herausgegeben von Gunther Born
kamm, 13, 1966. C J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck),
Tiibingen, 1955.
© 1972 in the English translation
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The Authors
Martin Dibelius, 1883-1947 , was for thirty-two years
Professor of New Testament Exegesis and Criticism at the
University of Heidelberg, Germany. A contributor to
both the Handbuch zum Neuen Testament and the Meyer
Kommentar, he is remembered for his contributions to the
Formgesclzichtliche studies. His major work, From Tradition
to Gospel, appeared in English in 1935.
Hans Conzelmann, born in 1915, served on the theo
logical faculties at Tubingen, Heidelberg, and Zurich
before assuming his present position in the theological
faculty at Gottingen. He is well known in English for The
Theology of St. Luke (1960) and An Outline of the Theology
of the New Testament (1969). He has also contributed to
Kittel's Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, Religion
in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Das Neue Testament Deutsch, the
Handbuch zum Neuen Testament and the Meyer Kommentar.
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