1 Timothy
Published on 1. October 2004
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-0-567-08159-9 (ISBN)
Description
Deborah Krause offers a reading of 1 Timothy that opens up new avenues of interpretation both in regard to historical understandings of the text and in regard to how the text has shaped and continues to shape practices of the church. Deborah Krause examines the letter's rhetoric as a discourse of power and reveals the writer's struggle with the community addressed regarding the social, economic, political and ecclesiastical shape of the church. In this sense, the letter writer's claims about women, children, widows and slaves are seen as particular to a contentious environment within the early church, rather than as a normative picture of early Christianity. In order to expose the letter writer's rhetoric to such scrutiny, Krause provides extensive citations of non-canonical early Christian writings that represent alternative social structures and ecclesiastical organizations. Her goal is to allow interpreters a better understanding of the complexity of the letter and to expose its many competing voices in their historical, canonical, and interpretive contexts.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-567-08159-9 (9780567081599)
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Person
Deborah Krause is Associate Professor of New Testament at Eden Theological Seminary in St. Louis, MO. She teaches courses on the interpreters of Paul, Biblical hermeneutics, and Feminist Biblical interpretation. She is an ordained minister within the Presbyterian Church (USA).
Content
Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Timothy 1.1-20 -- Establishing the Pauline Legacy and Addressing the Context; 1 Timothy 1.1-2 A Greeting to Timothy from Paul; 1 Timothy 1.3-11 Warnings against 'other' teachings; 1 Timothy 1.12-17 Paul's Personal Example of God's Mercy in Christ; 1 Timothy 1.18-20 A Charge to Timothy with a warning; 1 Timothy 2.1-3.13 --Ordering the Community; 1 Timothy 2.1-15 On Prayer and Worship; 1 Timothy 2.1-7 --Prayers for secular leaders; 1 Timothy 2.8-18 --Men and women; 1 Timothy 3.1-13 On Bishops and Deacons --Ideal Men; 1 Timothy 3.14-4.16 -- Fighting the Opponents; 1 Timothy 3.14-16a Travel details and the purposes of the letter; 1 Timothy 3.16b -- A hymn about Christ and the Church; 1 Timothy 4.1-5 Polemic against opponents; 1 Timothy 4.6-16 Instructions to Timothy; 1 Timothy 5.1-6.2a Instructions on Various Roles in the Church; 1 Timothy 5.1-2 --General Instructions Regarding Age; 1 Timothy 5.3-16 -- Widows; 1 Timothy 5.17-25 -- Elders; 1 Timothy 5.23 -25 Incidental Advice and Proverbial Wisdom; 1 Timothy 6.1-2a -- Slaves; 1 Timothy 6.2b-21 -- More Regarding the Opponents and Closing Thoughts; 1 Timothy 6.2b - 10 Instructions Regarding Opponent's Teaching; 1 Timothy 6.11-16 More Instructions to Timothy; 1 Timothy 6.17-19 Instructions for the Wealthy; 1 Timothy 6.20-21 Closing Greeting to Timothy; Appendix 1 -- 'Paul's Flesh Become Word'; Appendix 2 --Syllabus for a course entitled 'Following Paul. Authority, Church, and Mission in the Canonical and Non-Canonical Interpreters of Paul; Epilogue - The 'Last Word' in the War on Words