Additional Resources on 1 & 2 Thessalonians

Ascough, Richard S. Paul's Macedonian Assoications: The Context of Philippians and 1 Thessalonians. WUNT, no. 161. Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 2003.

________. "A Question of Death: Paul's Community-Building Language in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18." Journal of Biblical Litearture 123, no. 3 (2004): 509-30.

Barclay, William. The Letters to the Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians. rev. ed. Daily Study Bible. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1975.

Best, Ernest. The First and Second Epistles to the Thessalonians. Black's New Testament Commentaries. London: A & C Black, 1972.

Bruce, F. F. 1 & 2 Thessalonians. Word Biblical Commentary, no. 45. Waco: Word, 1982.

Coffman, James Burton. Commentary on 1 & 2 Thessalonians 1 & 2 Timothy Titus & Philemon. Austin: Firm Foundation Publishing, 1978.

Cook, J. G. "Pagan Philosophers and 1 Thessalonians." New Testament Studies 52, no. 4 (2006): 514-32.

Donfried, Karl P. "The Imperial Cults of Thessalonica and Political Conflict in 1 Thessalonians." In Paul and Empire, ed. Richard A. Horsley, 215-23. Harrisburg: Trinity Press International, 1997.

Donfried, Karl P. and I. Howard Marshall. The Theology of the Shorter Pauline Letters. New Testament Theology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Donfried, Karl Paul. Paul, Thessalonica, and Early Christianity. London: T & T Clark, 2002.

Elais, Jacob W., 1 & 2 Thessalonians , Scottsdale: Herald Press, 1995.

Elbert, Paul. "Paul of the Miletus Speech and 1 Thessalonians: Critique and Considerations." Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 95, no. 3/4 (2004): 258-68.

Elias, Jacob W. 1 and 2 Thessalonians. Believers Church Bible Commentary. Scottdale: Herald Press, 1995.

Gaventa, Beverly Roberts. "Apostles As Babes and Nurses in 1 Thessalonians 2:7." In Faith and History, eds. John Carroll and Charles Cosgrove, 193-207. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990.

________. First and Second Thessalonians. Louisville: John Knox, 1998.

Glancy, Jennifer A. Slavery in Early Christianity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Harrison, J. R. "Paul and the Imperial Gospel At Thessaloniki." Journal for the Study of the New Testament 25 (2002): 71-96.

Hunter, A. M. Probing the New Testament. Richmond: John Knox Press, 1972.

Koester, Helmut. "Imperial Ideology and Paul's Eschatology in 1 Thessalonians." In Paul and Empire, ed. Richard A. Horsley, 158-66. Harrisburg: Trinity Press International, 1997.

Légasse, Simon. Les Epîtres De Paul Aux Thessaloniciens. Paris: Editions du Cerf, 1999.

Lightfoot, J. B. Notes on the Epistles of Paul. Peabody: Hendrickson, 1995.

Lyons, George. Pauline Autobiography: Toward a New Understanding. Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series 73. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1985.

Lyons, George and William H. Malas. "Paul and His Friends Within the Greco-Roman Context." Wesleyan Theological Journal 42, no. 1 (2007): 50-69.

Malherbe, Abraham J. The Letter to the Thessalonians. Anchor Bible. New York: Doubleday, 2000.

Manson, T. W. Studies in the Gospels and Epistles. Edited by Matthew Black. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1962.

Marshall, I. Howard. 1 and 2 Thessalonians. New Century Bible Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1983.

Martin, Michael. 1,2 Thessalonians. New American Commentary. Nashville: Broadman and Holman, 1995.

Menken, Maarten J. J., 2 Thessalonians , London: Routeledge, 1994.

Morris, Leon. 1 and 2 Thessalonians. rev. ed. Tyndale New Testament Commentaries, no. 13. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1984.

Nicholl, Colin R. From Hope to Despair in Thessalonica. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Oakes, Peter. "Re-Mapping the Universe: Paul and the Emperor in 1 Thessalonians and Philippians." Journal for the Study of the New Testament 27 (2005).

Otto, Randall E. "The Meeting in the Air (1Thess 4:17)." Horizons in Biblical Theology 19, no. 2 (1997): 192-212.

Plevnik, Joseph. Paul and the Parousia: An Exegetical and Theological Investigation. Peabody: Hendrickson, 1997.

Popkes, Enno Edzard. "Die Bedeutung Des Zweiten Thessalonicherbriefs Für Das Verständnis Paulinischer Und Deuterpaulinischer Eschatogie." Biblische Zeitschrift 48, no. 1 (2004): 39-64.

Porter, Stanley E. "Devlopments in German and French Thessalonians Research: A Survey and Critique." Currents in Research: Biblical Studies 7 (1999): 309-34.

Richard, Earl J. First and Second Thessalonians. Sacra Pagina, no. 11. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1995.

Smith, Abraham. "'Unmasking the Powers:' Toward a Postcolonial Analysis of 1 Thessalonians." In Paul and the Roman Imperial Order, ed. Richard A. Horsley, 47-66. Harrisburg: Trinity Press International, 2004.

________. Comfort One Another: Reconstructing the Rhetoric and Audience of 1 Thessalonians. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 1995.

Smith, Jay E. "Another Look At 4Q416 2 Ii.21, a Critical Parallel to First Thessalonians 4:4." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 63, no. 3 (2001): 499-504.

Stanley, C. D. "Who's Afraid of a Thief in the Night?" New Testament Studies 48 (2002): 468-86.

Strijdom, Johan. "A Model NOT to Be Imitated? Recent Criticisms of Paul." Hervormde teologiese studies 57, no. 1 (2001): 612-22.

Thurston, Bonnie. Reading Colossians, Ephesians and 2 Thessalonians: A Literary and Theological Commentary. Reading the New Testament. New York: Crossroads, 1995.

Turner, Seth. "The Interim, Earthly Messianic Kingdom in Paul." Journal for the Study of the New Testament 25, no. 3 (2003): 323-42.

Walton, Steve. Leadership and Lifestyle: The Portrait of Paul in the Miletus Speech and 1 Thessalonians. SNTSMS, no. 108. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Wenham, David. "The Paulinism of Acts Again: Two Historical Clues in 1 Thessalonians." Themelios 13, no. 2 (1988): 53-55.

Witherington, Ben. 1 and 2 Thessalonians: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006.

Yarbrough, O. Larry. Not Like the Gentiles: Marriage Rules in the Letters of Paul. SBLDS, no. 80. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1984.

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