Exegesis: 1 Tim 2:8-15

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Dear Student,
Hi and thank you for your patience. The solution below should get you started. In this particular task, you are asking of help in writing an exegesis on Tim 2:8-15. I suggest following a simple outline to focus on the exercise of exegesis:
A. Introduction
B. Lines/Verses
1. Commentary on the verse from printed sources & personal
2. Conclusion: from printed sources & personal
C. Summation of key topics covered For the entire Passage
1. General opinion, highlights
2. Conclusion
D. References/Bibliography
I suggest using the listed resources to further explore the topic. All the best with your studies.
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AE 105878/Xenia Jones

Exegesis: Timothy 2:5-18

An exegesis in the study of theology (Engle, 2021), at its simplest "involves asking questions of the text that might unearth new insights...exegesis is not about discovering what we think a text means (or want it to mean) but what the biblical author meant. It's concerned with intentionality—what the author intended his original readers to understand." Derived from Greek term ἐξηγέομαι (anglicized - exegeomai) which can be translated as 'to explain, to narrate, to show the way.' An exegesis thus is not an interpretation, or to search meanings in a text. Unlike hermeneutics, it seeks to simply understand what the original author/writer means, the purpose of their writing, the message they wanted to convey. It seems simple enough but with the Bible having such a long genealogical history of translation and interpretation, the fear is that meaning and original has been buried or lost in translation and social/cultural situatedness over time as the text is translated into the present understanding of the reader far removed from the realities of the original author. Authors, writers write based on experience, on their understanding of the world they live in. Thus meaning is often in-situ, situated in time and socio-cultural (including political) setting. Just as meanings of words change in accordance to it's place in time (i.e. the word 'cute' in the 14th century referred to an 'imp' as it was derived from the word 'acute' which referred then to 'a crisis', a difficulty, and when used on people, a certain unwelcome ugliness; overtime, cute has evolved to mean something tiny, small, or an object, person or action worthy of admiration).

Thus, the importance of exegesis - the process seeks to understand the original purpose behind the text, what the author wanted to say. In the case of Timothy 2:8-15 from the First Timothy Book of The New Testament (or 1 Timothy) , what we are reading at present is a text translated from the 1st Century (Kirby, 2021) with its origins (while still being debated, namely it's authorship - that it was not possibly written by Paul but rather by unknown or unrecorded Christian scholars of the early 1st Century) (Ehrman, 2003) and authorship heavily and by Christian Theology, attributed to the Apostle Paul, as named in the text, with the book titled as the 1st Epistle of Paul to Timothy with the purpose of Paul giving advice to his younger colleague Timothy in his ministry in Ephesus at the time the letter was written. This letter meant to give counsel on the administration and organization of the church, conduct of leaders and followers and discussed/highlighted the importance of truth and of being faithful living through times of difficulty, confusion and errors.

History/Genealogy

The earliest historical evidence of 1 Timothy was the Oxyrhynchus Papyri unearthed by English Egyptologists Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt in 1896 (Grenfell & Hunt, 1898) in present-day El-Bahnasa, Egypt. Among the selection of manuscript which contained public and private documents like letters, tax records, census, codes, edicts, wills, bills and horoscopes were copies of passages from both the Old and New Testament including a papyrus manuscript that recorded 1 Timothy 3:13-4:8. Setting aside the debate on authorship, the time-frame of the book having been set in the 1st-2nd century thus situate the context of the time and social setting when the book was written - 1st millennium in the Julian calendar, the century when the historical Jesus of Nazareth was born. It is a time of power of the Roman Empire and Pax Romana, with Rome at the center controlling much of the then known European world, extending to North Africa and present-day edges of the Middle-east the fringe the Mediterranean. At a time of Roman power under Caesars like Augustus and Tiberius, life was harsh and subject to Roman rule (including adherence to Roman Belief and their Pantheon of God which directly clashed with the monotheistic teachings of Christianity) that controlled their vast empire via their well-ordered military might, 1 Timothy was said to have been written and at this time, Christians were subject to persecution, often ending in public executions. Christian martyrdom in the Roman Empire (the persecution and public execution of Christians the Roman Empire) took place until the 4th century when Emperor Constantine (Middleton, 2020) ...