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Bibliography: 1 Thessalonians
Overview
Cousar, Charles B. Reading Galatians, Philippians, and 1 Thessalonians: A Literary and Theological Commentary. RNTS. Macon, GA: Smyth & Helwys, 2001.
Donfried, Karl P., and I. Howard Marshall. The Theology of the Shorter Pauline Letters. NTT. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Furnish, Victor Paul. 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians. ANTC. Nashville: Abingdon, 2004.
Morris, Leon. Word Biblical Themes: 1, 2 Thessalonians. Dallas: Word, 1990.
Wright, Tom. Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2004.
Critical Commentaries
Best, Ernest. 1 & 2 Thessalonians. HNTC. New York: Harper & Row, 1972.
Bruce, F. F. 1 & 2 Thessalonians. WBC 45. Waco: Word, 1982.
Gaventa, Beverly Roberts. First and Second Thessalonians. Interpretation. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1998.
Green, Gene L. 1 & 2 Thessalonians. PNTC. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002.
Malherbe, Abraham J. The Letters to the Thessalonians. AB 32B. New York: Doubleday, 2000.
Morris, Leon. The First and Second Epistles to the Thessalonians. Rev. ed. NICNT. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991.
Wanamaker, Charles A. The Epistles to the Thessalonians: A Commentary on the Greek Text. NIGTC. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1990.
Witherington, Ben, III. 1 and 2 Thessalonians: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006.
On the Rhetoric of 1 Thessalonians
Jewett, Robert. The Thessalonian Correspondence: Pauline Rhetoric and Millenarian Piety. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1986.
Johanson, B. C. To All the Brethren: A Text-Linguistic and Rhetorical Approach to I Thessalonians. ConBNT 16. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1987.
Smith, Abraham. Comfort One Another: Reconstructing the Rhetoric and Audience of 1 Thessalonians. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1995.
On the Question of Paul Defending Himself against Criticisms
Donfried, Karl P., and Johannes Beutler, eds. The Thessalonians Debate: Methodological Discord or Methodological Synthesis? Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000.
On the Thessalonian Church’s Uneasy Relationship to the Secular Community
De Vos, Craig Stephen. Church and Community Conflicts: The Relationships of the Thessalonian, Corinthian, and Philippian Churches with Their Wider Civic Communities, 123–77. SBLDS 168. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997.
Still, Todd D. Conflict at Thessalonica: A Pauline Church and Its Neighbors. JSNTSup 163. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999.
On Marketplace Evangelism
Hock, R. F. The Social Context of Paul’s Ministry: Tentmaking and Apostleship. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1980.
Malherbe, Abraham. Paul and the Thessalonians: The Philosophic Tradition of Pastoral Care, 17–20. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1987.
On Connections with Greco-Roman Philosophy
Malherbe, Abraham. Paul and the Thessalonians: The Philosophic Tradition of Pastoral Care. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1987.
On the Present Status of the Dead
Jackson, Paul Norman. An Investigation of Koimaomai in the New Testament: The Concept of Eschatological Sleep. Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 1996.
On the Thessalonians’ Interest in the Second Coming
Carroll, John T., ed. The Return of Jesus in Early Christianity. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2000.
Holman, Charles L. Till Jesus Comes: Origins of Christian Apocalyptic Expectation. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1996.
Jewett, Robert. The Thessalonian Correspondence: Pauline Rhetoric and Millenarian Piety. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1986.
Nicholl, Colin R. From Hope to Despair in Thessalonica: Situating 1 and 2 Thessalonians. SNTSMS 126. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Plevnik, Joseph. “The Parousia Depiction in 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18.” In Paul and the Parousia: An Exegetical and Theological Investigation, 65–98. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1997.
Witherington, Ben, III. Jesus, Paul, and the End of the World: A Comparative Study in New Testament Eschatology. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1992.
On Family Imagery in 1 Thessalonians
Aasgaard, Reidar. “My Beloved Brothers and Sisters!” Christian Siblingship in Paul. JSNTSup 263. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2004.
Burke, Trevor J. Family Matters: A Socio-Historical Study of Kinship Metaphors in I Thessalonians. JSNTSup 247. London: T&T Clark, 2003.
On Polemic against the Jews (1 Thess. 2:14–16)
Schlueter, Carol. Filling Up the Measure: Polemical Hyperbole in 1 Thessalonians 2.14–16. JSNTSup 98. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1994.
On Sexual Morality
Ellis, J. Edward. Paul and Ancient Views of Sexual Desire: Paul’s Sexual Ethics in 1 Thessalonians 4, 1 Corinthians 7, and Romans 1. LNTS 354. London: T&T Clark, 2007.
Other Academic Studies
Collins, Raymond F. Studies on the First Letter to the Thessalonians. BETL 66. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1984.
———. The Thessalonian Correspondence. BETL 97. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1990.
Jervis, L. Ann. At the Heart of the Gospel: Suffering in the Earliest Christian Message. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007.
Tellbe, Mikael. Paul between Synagogue and State: Christians, Jews, and Civic Authorities in 1 Thessalonians, Romans, and Philippians. ConBNT 34. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 2001.