TY - BOOK AU - Witherington,Ben TI - 1 and 2 Thessalonians: a socio-rhetorical commentary SN - 9780802828361 AV - BS2725 PY - 2006/// CY - Grand Rapids, Michigan PB - William B. Eerdmans Pub. Company N1 - 1 (pages xix-[xxxi]) and indexes; 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; 2 UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0620/2006028680.html UR - http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=017713515&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA ER -