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1 and 2 Thessalonians: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

Paul’s two letters to the Thessalonians stand as some of the very earliest Christian documents, yet they appear well into Paul’s missionary career, giving them a unique context well worth exploring. Witherington provides a reading of Paul’s text in the light of rhetorical concerns and patterns, early Jewish theology, and the first-century historical situation in Macedonia. He details...

magistracies)16 and thus allowed it to cultivate local patrons as well as those in Rome. The town council (dēmos) collaborated with the politarchs, who convened town council meetings to keep the peace and make major decisions. We learn of some of the functions of this body in Greek culture from inscriptions. We have one honorific decree in which a dēmos (in this case on Samos in the fourth century B.C.) votes to honor two persons “upon hearing the euaggelia (‘good news’).”17 The status of a free
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