Description The study of Paul\'s Thessalonian letters is enjoying fresh interest today.
This volume addresses: Authorship Date Audience Socio-Historical Context Genre Purpose Integrity Textual History Greek Style Structure Argument Other Critical Issues Main Interpretive Issues Reception into the Canon Selected History of Interpretation Bibliography.
This volume on 1 and 2 Thessalonians in the Zondervan Critical Introductions to the New Testament series offers a volume-length engagement with subjects that normally only receive short treatments in biblical commentaries or in New Testament Introductions.
This volumes serves as an up-to-date guide to these academic discussions and debates and much more.
And, looking back, these letters have played an important role in the development of Christian eschatology.
New insights are coming from examination of the religious, socio-cultural, and political contexts of Roman Thessalonica.
They are included in conversations about early Jewish and Christian apocalypticism.
These texts are considered by many to be amongst the earliest extant Christian documents.
Description The study of Paul\'s Thessalonian letters is enjoying fresh interest today
