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“Empty Talk” in 1 Timothy in the Light of its Graeco-Roman Context

Abstract This article discusses the motif of “empty talk” in 1 Timothy 1:6, relates it to other motifs from the same semantic domain and explains its role and meaning in the book as a whole. Contextual information from the Graeco-Roman world is taken up in order to delineate its meaning and to understand the communication of the letter better.