The First and Second Letters to Timothy

The Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries

by Luke Timothy Johnson

s/t: A New Translation with Introduction & Commentary

Genres: New Testament

494 pages, Hardcover

First published March 20, 2001

About the author

Luke Timothy Johnson is an American New Testament scholar and historian of early Christianity. He is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at Candler School of Theology and a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University.

Johnson's research interests encompass the Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts of early Christianity (particularly moral discourse), Luke-Acts, the Pastoral Epistles, and the Epistle of James.

Reviews

[John Waldrip · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is my first exposure to Luke Timothy Johnson and I found his commentary useful. He includes insightful devotional observations as well as including evidence of thoroughness when handling the Greek text. This would be a good book to include in a pastor's library.

[Ephrem Arcement · Rating 5 out of 5]

Johnson not only demonstrates his exegetical acumen here but also utilizes his contrarian perspective convincingly. This is a great gift to NT studies and should cause many to reevaluate premature(?) assumptions about this canonical text.

[Thomas McCloskey]

Exceptional.

[Brian Collins]

Johnson is a critical scholar who is unconvinced of the arguments against Pauline authorship of the letters to Timothy and Titus. His critique of the reigning critical view and his arguments for Pauline authorship are careful and insightful. His critical proclivities emerge however in his comments about the role of women in the church.