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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 December 2023
This letter is not like 1 Timothy or Titus but is more like a farewell, at least in a traditional reading of 4:1–8, esp. vv. 6–8, and some would argue it is the last letter written by Paul himself. I am unpersuaded that the farewell theory has been overturned. More than two decades ago Séan Charles Martin compared the image of Paul in 2 Timothy with the roughly contemporary images of Moses and concluded that as Moses was depicted as a prophet, a lawgiver, and a suffering intercessor, so also was Paul as depicted in this letter.1 One cannot deny some thematic connections even if one is not altogether convinced by Martin’s approach. This is one of the several themes in 2 Timothy that distinguishes this letter from the other PEs, though differences tend to get exaggerated at times.
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