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Timothy's Task, Paul's Prospect - A New Reading of 2 Timothy (Hardcover, New)
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Timothy's Task, Paul's Prospect - A New Reading of 2 Timothy (Hardcover, New)
Series: New Testament Monographs, No. 12
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In this challenging book, Craig Smith propounds the novel thesis
that the famous lines in 2 Timothy 4 where 'Paul' announces that
the time of his departure has come have been misunderstood. This is
no farewell speech, Smith avers, and Paul is not intending to pass
on the baton to his younger colleague, Timothy. Deploying
epistolary analysis and rhetorical criticism, Smith shows that
these verses (4.1-8) do not have the literary structure or the
vocabulary of a testament or a farewell; rather, they are a
'charge', an authoritative command, comprised of five specific
formal elements. This charge form is found also in the exorcism
command and in some magical texts, Christian and non-Christian.
From this perspective, Paul's being poured out as a libation is his
experience of preaching to the Gentiles at his first trial, his
'departure' is the imminent release from prison that he is
expecting, the fight he has fought and the race he has finished are
his trial that he has withstood. Far from appointing Timothy as his
successor, he is contemplating a continued companionship and
collegiality as they continue their ministry together.
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