Steve Walton on 2 Timothy 4:1-8

You can access Walton's presentation slides here.

Erastus of Corinth

Carl Rasmussen has a helpful post here on Erastus of Corinth, a personage mentioned in Acts 19:22; Romans 16:13; 2 Timothy 4:20.

Gerald Bray on the Pastoral Epistles

Ian Paul has a good interview here of Gerald Bray concerning his recent commentary on the Pastoral Epistles.

Teaching 2 Timothy

John Currie talk to Nancy Guthrie about teaching 2 Timothy here.

Free Logos Book for November: New Covenant Commentary: 2 Timothy and Titus

The free Logos Book for the Month for November is Aida Spencer's 2 Timothy and Titus commentary in the New Covenant Commentary series. Two other volumes in the same series are also on sale, Nijay Gupta's 1–2 Thessalonians for 99¢ and Michael Bird's Colossians and Philemon for $1.99. There is also a contest to win a 31 volume Church Dogmatics by Barth. For all these offers, go to the Logos' Free Book of Month page here.

Robert Yarbrough Interview

Last week I provided a link here to Robert Yarbrough answering five questions related to the Pastoral Epistles and related to a commentary on the Pastorals that he has just written for the Pillar New Testament Commentary series. Now Mike Bird has posted an interview with Yarbrough on the Pastorals his blog here.

Robert Yarbrough on the Letters to Timothy and Titus

The Eerdmans' blog has an interview with Robert Yarbrough here on five big surprises that he found while researching and writing a commentary on the Letters to Timothy and Titus

Mission as the Staring Point for the Theology of the Pastorals?

Andreas Köstenberger in this post suggests that "mission" might be the best starting point for the theology of the Pastorals. I'm not sure I agree but it is interesting.

Three Contributions of Second Timothy

  

Second Timothy makes at least three important contributions to the New Testament. First, it provides significant insight into Paul’s final days. Second, since in many ways this is Paul’s testament, it provides important clues into issues that the apostle considered significant. Third, 2 Timothy contains an important doctrinal passage concerning the inspiration of Scripture (3:16–17) and two important prophecies concerning future threats to the church (3:1–9; 4:3–4).

 

Denny Burk on 2 Timothy 2:2

  
See Denny Burk's post on 2 Timothy 2:2.
 

One Problem with Denying Pauline Authorship of the Pastorals

Many New Testament scholars have come to the conclusion that the apostle Paul did not write 1-2 Timothy and Titus (a.k.a. the Pastoral Epistles). Personally, I think that there are a number of problems with this conclusion textually, theologically, and pastorally. But there is also a problem related to the study of the Pastorals, or perhaps better, the lack of study on the Pastorals. As Aldred Genade notes in a recent article, "The link between the authorship debate and the evident neglect of the Pastoral Epistles generally and Titus specifically is beyond dispute" (p. 49). This is even more troubling since New Testament scholarship seems to have plenty to say these days about extra-biblical literature, and yet have neglected the Pastorals (Ibid). An informal search of the program for this years Society of Biblical Literature meeting seems to confirm this. Out of the hundreds (?) of papers scheduled for this years meeting there are two papers dealing with 1 Timothy, two papers on 2 Timothy, and one paper related to Titus.

Aldred Genade, "The Better to Titus in Recent Scholarship: A Critical Overview," Currents in Biblical Research (2010); 48-82. 

Köstenberger on Timothy and Titus as Apostolic Delegates

Andreas Köstenberger has a post and link here on Timothy and Titus as apostolic delegates.

Notes on 2 Timothy

Rick Brannan has made his notes on 2 Timothy, a phrasal interlinear with syntactical notes, available as a single forty-three page pdf here.

Mounce on 2 Timothy 3:17

Bill Mounce has a nice discussion concerning translation and gender, in particular as it relates to 2 Timothy 3:17. Read it here.

Mounce on 2 Timothy 1:7

Bill Mounce has a post on 2 Timothy 1:7. In particular, Mounce asks and answers the question, "Was Timothy timid or fearful. In short, Mounce's answer is "no." Read the post here.