Talk:1st Timothy

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I have assembled all material from First Epistle to Timothy, Second Epistle to Timothy and Epistle to Titus here, with minimal tweaking, meaning not to edit until everyone is satisfied that the three Pastoral Epistles can be treated as a group, with subsections for material that concerns them individually. After a while, the former entries (content now duplicative) can be converted to redirects. The individual books remain in the Category:New Testament books, with an additional category, Pastoral epistles. --Wetman 03:58, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

This article is biased in favor of the conservative view of date and authorship. This article is not NPOV. Note that the current article contains this quote: "Thus, there is no scholarly reason to openly embrace the idea that this is not Paul's work." Compare this with the Encyclopedia Britannica comment on the subject: "Broadly speaking, Roman Catholic exegetes still hold that Paul was the author and view the letters as sources of information about the apostle's life and thought. Protestant exegetes are generally convinced that the style is so different from Paul's normal way of expressing himself that someone else must have been the author." Obviously, there are many historians who believe Paul is not the author. For example, L. Michael White believes that I Timothy was written around 120-140 AD. Westwind273 00:58, 13 November 2006 (UTC)