1 and 2 Thessalonians : a socio-rhetorical commentary / Ben Witherington III. [print]

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Witherington, Ben, 1951- [Author]

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9780802828361

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One and two Thessalonians
First and second Thessalonians

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BS2725
BS2725.W823.A538 2006

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Contents:

The exordium, 1.2-3: a preview of coming attractions -- The narration: the story thus far, 1.4-3.10 -- Transitus: closing wish prayer, 3.11-13 -- The exhortation: a call to holiness and hope, 4.1-5.15. part 1. The call to holiness and brotherly love, 4.1-8, 9-12 ; part 2. The call to hope and alertness: the tale of sleepers dead and living, 4.13-5.11 ; part 3. Honor the workers and the work, 5.12-15 -- The Peroratio: parting shots, 5.16-22 -- The invocation/wish prayer: the God of peace who sanctifies, 5.23-24 -- Epistolary closing, 5.25-28.

The exordium/Thanksgiving prayer, 1.3-10: the destiny of the sacred sufferers and the terrible tormentors -- Propositio, 1.11-12: persuasion by a praying proposition -- Refutatio, 2.1-12: prelude to the parousia -- Prayer matters, 2.13-3.5. Thanksgiving/firm living, 2.13-15 ; Transitus: another wish prayer, 2.16-17 ; Final request, 3.1-5 -- Working hypothesis, 3.6-12 -- Peroratio, 3.13-15: on shunning and shaming without excommunicating ; Epistolary closing, 3.16-18.

Was Paul anti-semitic? -- Holy wedlock and unholy alliances -- A Christian manual on manual labor? -- The fate of the dead -- Parousia -- Exercising restraint: apocalyptic answers to difficult questions -- On doing theology in ad hoc letters -- The ancient art and labor of letter writing.

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Commentary on 1 Thessalonians. Epistolary Prescript, 1.1 -- The exordium, 1.2-3: a preview of coming attractions -- The narration: the story thus far, 1.4-3.10 -- Transitus: closing wish prayer, 3.11-13 -- The exhortation: a call to holiness and hope, 4.1-5.15. part 1. The call to holiness and brotherly love, 4.1-8, 9-12 ; part 2. The call to hope and alertness: the tale of sleepers dead and living, 4.13-5.11 ; part 3. Honor the workers and the work, 5.12-15 -- The Peroratio: parting shots, 5.16-22 -- The invocation/wish prayer: the God of peace who sanctifies, 5.23-24 -- Epistolary closing, 5.25-28.

Commentary on 2 Thessalonians. Epistolary prescript, 1.1-2 -- The exordium/Thanksgiving prayer, 1.3-10: the destiny of the sacred sufferers and the terrible tormentors -- Propositio, 1.11-12: persuasion by a praying proposition -- Refutatio, 2.1-12: prelude to the parousia -- Prayer matters, 2.13-3.5. Thanksgiving/firm living, 2.13-15 ; Transitus: another wish prayer, 2.16-17 ; Final request, 3.1-5 -- Working hypothesis, 3.6-12 -- Peroratio, 3.13-15: on shunning and shaming without excommunicating ; Epistolary closing, 3.16-18.

A closer look: Election, persecution, and perseverance in 1 and 2 Thessalonians -- Was Paul anti-semitic? -- Holy wedlock and unholy alliances -- A Christian manual on manual labor? -- The fate of the dead -- Parousia -- Exercising restraint: apocalyptic answers to difficult questions -- On doing theology in ad hoc letters -- The ancient art and labor of letter writing.

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