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1 and 2 Thessalonians treats the literary context and structure of the passage in its original Greek, as well as an original translation based on the literary structure. Critical scholarship informs each step but doesn’t dominate the commentary, allowing readers to concentrate on Paul’s message to the Thessalonians as it unfolds. While primarily designed for those with a basic knowledge of...

would plant his churches with Jews and God-fearers and some pagans. Then, rapid growth took place among Gentiles, with less growth among the smaller population of Jews. By the time Paul wrote his first letter to Thessalonica, the church in the majority was already Gentile Christian. Who was the typical Christian in Thessalonica at the time of 1 Thessalonians? He or she was from a pagan background, spoke koinē Greek as a first language, could not read or write, kept house or was a manual laborer or
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