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100 1 $aWitherington, Ben,$d1951-
245 10 $a1 and 2 Thessalonians :$ba socio-rhetorical commentary /$cBen Witherington III.
246 3 $aOne and two Thessalonians
246 3 $aFirst and second Thessalonians
260 $aGrand Rapids, Mich. :$bWilliam B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.,$cc2006.
300 $axxxi, 286 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. xix-xxxi) and indexes.
505 0 $aI. Introduction -- The "Metropolis" of Macedonia and its history -- Authorship, date, and occasion of the letters -- The epistolary and rhetorical situation of the Thessalonian correspondence -- The social situation of Paul and his converts n Thessalonike -- II. Commentary on I Thessalonians -- A. Epistolary prescript -- B. The Exordium -- a preview of coming attractions -- C. The Narratio -- the story thus far -- A closer look: Election, persecution, and perseverance in 1 and 2 Thessalonians -- A closer look: Was Paul anti-Semitic? -- Bridging the horizons -- D. Transitus -- closing wish prayer -- E. The Exhortatio -- A call to holiness and hope -- F. Part One: The call to holiness and brother love -- A closer look: Holy wedlock and unholy alliances -- A closer look: A Christian manual on manual labor? -- G. Part Two: The call to hope and alertness: The tale of sleepers dead and living -- A closer look: The fate of the dead -- A closer look : Parousia -- Bridging the horizons -- H. Part Three: Honor the workers and the work -- I. The Peroratio -- parting shots -- J. The invocation/wish prayer -- the God of peace who sanctifies -- K. Epistolary closing -- Bridging the horizons -- III. Commentary on 2 Thessalonians -- A. Epistolary prescript -- B. The Exordium/thanksgiving prayer -- the destiny of the sacred sufferers and the terrible tormentors -- C. Prepositio -- persuasion by a praying proposition -- Bridging the horizons -- D. Refutatio -- prelude to the parousia -- A closer look: Exercising restraint: Apocalyptic answers to difficult questions -- Bridging the horizons -- E. Prayer matters -- F. Thanksgiving/firm living -- A closer look: On doing theology in ad hoc letters -- G. Transitus: Another wish prayer -- H. Final request -- I. Working hypothesis -- J. Peroratio -- On shunning and shaming without excommunicating -- K. Epistolary closing -- A closer look: The ancient art and labor of letter writing -- Bridging the horizons.
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