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1 and 2 Thessalonians : a socio-rhetorical commentary /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Witherington, Ben, III, 1951-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., [2006]
Subjects:
Bible. > Thessalonians > Socio-rhetorical criticism.
Bible. > Thessalonians - Socio-rhetorical Criticism.
Bibel > Thessalonicherbrief. > 2.
Paulus <Apostel>.
Bible. > Thessalonians.
Socio-rhetorical criticism of sacred works.
Thessalonicenzen (bijbelboeken)
Retorica.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • I. 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.