Another worthwhile contribution to the outstanding What Are They Saying About...series is this volume by Mark Harding dealing with the pastoral epistles. In it the author gives an overview of seminal and recent trends in scholarship on the three pastoral epistles: 1 and 2 Timothy and Titus. Table of Contents: 1. The Authorship of the Pastorals 2. The Pastoral Epistles and Pauline Tradition 3. The Social Setting of the Pastoral Epistles 4. The Literary Setting of the Pastoral Epistles 5. The Pastoral Epistles and Classical Rhetoric 6. The Meaning of the Pastoral Epistles Today A select bibliography and suggestions for further study complete this significant work, the first of its kind to survey scholarship on the pastoral epistles. Written for seminary and university students, this book will also find an audience among preachers looking for a concise introduction to the letters, and historians of the first century CE Greco-Roman era. +
