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The Pastoral Epistles are often considered together, as each throws light upon the others. The Epistle to Titus is a book of the Canonic New Testament , one of the three so-called "pastoral epistles" (with '' 1 Timothy '' and '' 2 Timothy ''). It is offered as a letter from Paul to the Apostle Titus . AUTHORSHIP AND DATE Scholars consider the , most scholars today consider them Pseudepigraphical . Traditional view The author of Titus identifies himself as "Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ." According to '' Easton's Bible Dictionary '' (1897), "Paul's Authorship was undisputed in antiquity, as far as known, but is frequently doubted today. It was probably written about the same time as the First Epistle To Timothy , with which it has many affinities." Scholars who believe Paul wrote Titus date its composition from the circumstance that it was written after Paul's visit to Crete (Titus 1:5). That visit could not be the one referred to in ''Acts'' 27:7, when Paul was on his voyage to Rome as a prisoner, and where he continued a prisoner for two years. Thus traditional Exegesis supposes that after his release Paul sailed from Rome into Asia, passing Crete by the way, and that there he left Titus "to set in order the things that were wanting." Thence he would have gone to Ephesus , where he left Timothy, and from Ephesus to Macedonia , where he wrote the ''First Epistle to Timothy'', and thence, according to the superscription of this epistle, to Nicopolis in Epirus , from which place he wrote to Titus, about 66 or 67. Critical view The Pastoral Epistles are widely regarded by contemporary scholars as being Pseudepigraphical . On the basis of the language and content of the pastoral epistles, many scholars today doubt that they were written by Paul, and believe that they were written after his death. Critics examining the text fail to find its vocabulary and literary style similar to Paul's unquestionably authentic letters, fail to fit the life situation of Paul in the epistles into Paul's reconstructed biography, and identify principles of the emerged Christian church rather than those of the apostolic generation. Bart D. Ehrman . ''The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings'' 3rd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. pp. 385ff Those scholars who consider Titus to be pseudepigraphical date the epistle from the 80s up to the end of the 2nd century. Raymond E. Brown . ''An Introduction to the New Testament''. New York: Anchor Bible, p. 662 EPIMENIDES One of the . In this section of the letter, Paul does not go after the character of the Cretans but rather makes observations of their false teachers. He leaves the character judgment of the people on Crete up to their own prophet. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS Online translations of the Epistle to Titus:
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