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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...

with a holy kiss (1 Thess. 1:1; 5:26; 2 Thess. 1:1–2), the reference to the wish prayer (1 Thess. 1:2–3; 2 Thess. 1:3–4), the charge to have the letter read aloud to all the brothers (1 Thess. 5:27), and the reference to the autograph with closing greeting (2 Thess. 3:17), there is little evidence of the use of regular epistolary conventions in these documents. Equally important, when epistolary forms are used, as in the wish prayer (or even more in the invocation or benedictions) they are modified
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