Pseudepigraphy and Ethical Argument in the Pastoral Epistles

includes index and biblioraphy

1. The pseudepigraphical Letter ..........7 Current discussion on Pseudepigraphy .....9 The Pseudepigraphical letter in the Greco-Roman World ..........23 The Pseudepigraphical Letter in Early Christianity .......42 The Pastorals as Pseudepigraphical Letters ...........54 2. Forms of Argument ...........67 The Enthymeme........69 salvation Statement.................81 The Character of the Religious life ............85 The Entrusted traditions ...........88 The Paradigm: Inductive and Illustrative.......90 Inductive Paradigms .........100 Illustrative paradigms ...........106 The organizations of Arguments .......109 3. The cosmological and Ethical System ......115 The opponents ........116 The Author`s Response .............127 Christology and ethics ........129 Scholarship.......129 The cosmological Framework of the Ethic .......133 God as creator and Savior......135 The first Epiphany of Jesus ........141 The Second Epiphany of Jesus .......146 A Cultic Ethic ...............154 Greco-Roman Ethics ............154 The Entrusted Traditions ........162 The Content of the Ethic ......171 Virtues and vices .........171 Household Codes .............176 Outfitted for Good works ............183 Baptism ...............183 Education ............187 Good works ..............195