The Pastoral Epistles: A Commentary on the Greek Text
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
- Title: The Pastoral Epistles: A Commentary on the Greek Text
- Author: Stanley E. Porter
- Publisher: Baker Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2023
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Pages: 969
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Bible. N.T. Pastoral Epistles › Commentaries; Bible. N.T. Pastoral Epistles. Greek › Versions; Bible. N.T. 1 Timothy › Commentaries; Bible. N.T. 2 Timothy › Commentaries; Bible. N.T. Titus › Commentaries
- ISBNs: 9780801027185, 9781493436880, 9781493436897, 0801027187, 1493436880, 1493436899
- Resource ID: LLS:PASTORALEPISTLES
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-10-17T17:52:50Z
Stanley E. Porter, PhD, University of Sheffield, has taught for more than 30 years in post-secondary institutions in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. He is a Greek and New Testament expert, and, since 2001, has been the president, dean, and professor of New Testament at McMaster Divinity College. He's best known for his works on verbal aspects in New Testament Greek, is actively involved in OpenText.org and the Linguistics Institute of Ancient and Biblical Greek, and is a regular columnist for Christian Week.
Porter is the author or editor of numerous New Testament and Greek studies, including Idioms of the Greek New Testament, Discourse Analysis and the New Testament: Approaches and Results, and Dictionary of New Testament Background. He has edited over 80 volumes and authored 28 books on various New Testament and related topics, including How We Got the New Testament: Text, Transmission, Translation, and The Gospel of John in Modern Interpretation. Plus, he's published more than 450 journal articles, chapters in books, and dictionary entries and regularly speaks at major conferences and other venues around the world.
His interests include Greek language and linguistics, hermeneutics and various methods of interpretation, and a range of New Testament studies from the Gospels to John to Acts to Paul. He is also a papyrological and text-oriented research specialist and is interested in the wider Greco-Roman world. Outside of academia, Stanley has served in young adult ministry and has assisted in developing a lay training institute for the local church.
