  Social-Science Commentary  SSoocciiaall--SScciieennccee CCoommmmeennttaarryy  Deutero-Pauline Letters on the  S Book Important new insights from the social sciences— C o oonn Deutero-Pauline o c  m i tthhee a The Social-Science Commentary series pioneers an alternative commentary genre, m l- providing in this volume the text of the deutero-Pauline letters and cultural notes on S e c oLfe tAtecrsts them. This latest volume in the series, Social-Science Commentary on the Deutero- n i e Pauline Letters, provides essential “reading scenarios” on specific cultural phenomena t a n in these letters, including forgery, normative conflict, paideia (training), and Household r c y e Codes. In this volume, Bruce J. Malina and John J. Pilch highlight the transformation of the memory of Paul in early Christianity as reflecting the concerns and interest of communities after Paul’s death. o n t h Praise for Social-Science Commentary on the Deutero-Pauline Letters e D “Malina and Pilch have done it again! They have produced a commentary that is incisive, insightful, and full of new ways to read the texts, as well as challenges e to old ways of understanding them.” u Walter F. Taylor Jr. t e Trinity Lutheran Seminary r o - P a Bruce J. Malina is professor of New Testament at Creighton University, Omaha, and author, u l coauthor, or editor of many influential volumes in New Testament, including several recent i n Fortress Press titles: Social-Science Commentary on the Book of Revelation (2000); Social-Science e Commentary on the Synoptic Gospels (2nd edition 2003); Social-Science Commentary on the Gospel of John (1998); and The Social Gospel of Jesus (2001). L e John J. Pilch teaches at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Among his numerous t t publications are The Cultural World of Jesus: Sunday by Sunday (1995–97), The Cultural Dictionary e of the Bible (1999), and Healing in the New Testament (2000). Malina and Pilch coauthored the r s Social-Science Commentary on the Book of Acts (2008) and the Social-Science Commentary on the Letters of Paul (2005), both from Fortress Press. Religion/New Testament Bruce J. Malina Fortress Press John J. Pilch fortresspress.com SOCIAL-SCIENCE COMMENTARY ON THE DEUTERO-PAULINE LETTERS SOCIAL-SCIENCE COMMENTARY ON THE DEUTERO- PAULINE LETTERS BRUCE J. MALINA AND JOHN J. PILCH Fortress Press Minneapolis SOCIAL-SCIENCE COMMENTARY ON THE DEUTERO-PAULINE LETTERS Copyright © 2013 Fortress Press. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical articles or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Visit http://www.augsburgfortress.org/copyrights/ or write to Permissions, Augsburg Fortress, Box 1209, Minneapolis, MN 55440. Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright©1989bytheDivisionofChristianEducationoftheNationalCouncilofthe Churches of Christ in the USA. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Cover image:Reproduced by courtesy of the Univerity Librarian and Director, The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester Cover design: Tory Herman Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Print ISBN: 978-0-8006-9967-3 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4514-5226-6 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American NationalStandardforInformationSciences—PermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibrary Materials, ANSI Z329.48-1984. Manufactured in the U.S.A. This book was produced using PressBooks.com, and PDF rendering was done by PrinceXML. CONTENTS vii Abbreviations ix Preface xi Introduction 1 1. Ephesians 13 2. Colossians 31 3. 2 Thessalonians 53 4. The Pastoral Epistles: 1-2 Timothy and Titus 67 5. Titus 71 6. 1 Timothy 93 7. 2 Timothy 143 8. Hebrews 163 Bibliography 217 Reading Scenarios for the Deutero-Pauline Letters 223 List of Reading Scenarios 297 v Also from Fortress Press By Bruce J. Malina and John J. Pilch Social-Science Commentary on the Book of Revelation(2000) Social-Science Commentary on the Book of Acts(2008) Social-Science Commentary on the Letters of Paul(2010) By Bruce J. Malina and Richard L. Rohrbaugh Social-Science Commentary on the Gospel of John(1998) Social-Science Commentary on the Synoptic Gospels,2nd ed. (2003) vii Abbreviations AABBDDTheAnchorBibleDictionary.EditedbyDavidNoelFreedman.6vols.New York: Doubleday, 1992. 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RSVRevised Standard Version TTDDNNTT Theological Dictionary of the New Testament.Edited by G. Kittel and G. Friedrich. Translated by G. W. Bromiley. 10 vols. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1964–76. ix