The Pastoral Epistles: A Commentary on the Greek Text
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
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. By focusing on the Greek text and utilizing a linguistically informed exegetical method that draws on various elements in contemporary language study, this book breaks new ground in its interpretation of the Pastoral Epistles. It also addresses major exegetical issues that arise in highly disputed passages.
- Offers a comprehensive commentary on the Pastoral Epistles
- Features rigorous biblical scholarship and emphasizes Greek language and linguistics
- Addresses major exegetical issues that arise in highly disputed passages
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, F. M. and Ada Thompson Professor of Biblical Studies, 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. While focusing on insights at the clause level, he also sheds new light by bringing linguistic theory and the data of the texts to bear on the critical issues and the notorious interpretive problems of these controversial and intriguing letters.
—Cynthia Long Westfall, associate professor of New Testament, McMaster Divinity College
If Mount Rushmore honored great and recent English-language commentaries on the Pastorals, alongside the works of I. Howard Marshall, Philip Towner, and Gerald Bray would now appear this offering by Stanley E. Porter. 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, professor of New Testament, Covenant Theological Seminary
