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| Preface | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The "Metropolis" of Macedonia and Its History | |
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| Authorship, Date, and Occasion of the Letters | |
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| The Epistolary and Rhetorical Situation of the Thessalonian Correspondence | |
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| The Social Situation of Paul and His Converts in Thessalonike | |
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| Commentary on 1 Thessalonians | |
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| Epistolary Prescript - 1.1 | |
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| The Exordium - 1.2-3 - A Preview of Coming Attractions | |
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| The Narratio - The Story Thus Far - 1.4-3.10 | |
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| A Closer Look: Election, Persecution, and Perseverance in 1 and 2 Thessalonians | |
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| A Closer Look: Was Paul Anti-Semitic? | |
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| Bridging the Horizons | |
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| Transitus - Closing Wish Prayer - 3.11-13 | |
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| The Exhortatio - A Call to Holiness and Hope - 4.1-5.15 | |
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| The Call to Holiness and Brotherly Love - 4.1-8, 9-12 | |
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| A Closer Look: Holy Wedlock and Unholy Alliances | |
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| A Closer Look: A Christian Manual on Manual Labor? | |
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| The Call to Hope and Alertness: The Tale of Sleepers Dead and Living - 4.13-5.11 | |
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| A Closer Look: The Fate of the Dead | |
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| A Closer Look: Parousia | |
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| Bridging the Horizons | |
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| Honor the Workers and the Work - 5.12-15 | |
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| The Peroratio - Parting Shots - 5.16-22 | |
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| The Invocation/Wish Prayer - The God of Peace Who Sanctifies - 5.23-24 | |
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| Epistolary Closing - 5.25-28 | |
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| Bridging the Horizons | |
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| Commentary on 2 Thessalonians | |
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| Epistolary Prescript - 1.1-2 | |
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| The Exordium/Thanksgiving Prayer - 1.3-10 - The Destiny of the Sacred Sufferers and the Terrible Tormentors | |
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| Propositio - 1.11-12 - Persuasion by a Praying Proposition | |
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| Bridging the Horizons | |
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| Refutatio - 2.1-12 - Prelude to the Parousia | |
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| A Closer Look: Exercising Restraint: Apocalyptic Answers to Difficult Questions | |
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| Bridging the Horizons | |
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| Prayer Matters - 2.13-3.5 | |
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| Thanksgiving/Firm Living - 2.13-15 | |
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| A Closer Look: On Doing Theology in Ad Hoc Letters | |
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| Transitus: Another Wish Prayer - 2.16-17 | |
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| Final Request - 3.1-5 | |
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| Working Hypothesis - 3.6-12 | |
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| Peroratio - 3.13-15 - On Shunning and Shaming without Excommunicating | |
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| Epistolary Closing - 3.16-18 | |
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| A Closer Look: The Ancient Art and Labor of Letter Writing | |
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| Bridging the Horizons | |
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| Index of Authors | |
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| Index of References | |