The Pseudepigraphal Letters to the Thessalonians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Pseudepigraphal Letters to the Thessalonians write by Marlene Crüsemann. This book was released on 2018-12-13. The Pseudepigraphal Letters to the Thessalonians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Marlene Crüsemann examines the Thessalonian letters in the context of Jewish-Christian social history; building upon her analysis of 1 Thessalonians, Crüsemann comes to the conclusion that it is post-apostolic epistolary communication, and questions whether it is a letter of Paul and indeed whether it is an early letter. This analysis in turn adds weight to the thesis, propounded by some previous scholars, that the letter is somewhat out of place and may be a later work by another author. Crüsemann subsequently illustrates that 2 Thessalonians, by contrast, revokes the far-reaching social separation from Judaism that characterizes 1 Thessalonians, and thus aims socio-historically at a solidarity with the entire Jewish people. Analysing the concept of the Jews as supposed enemy, the future of the Greek gentile community, and the relationship between the two letters, Crüsemann concludes that the discussion about a "divergence of the ways of Christians and Jews" in early Christian times needs to be realigned.
Paul and Pseudepigraphy
Paul and Pseudepigraphy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Paul and Pseudepigraphy write by Stanley E. Porter. This book was released on 2013-09-05. Paul and Pseudepigraphy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Paul and Pseudepigraphy, an international group of scholars engage open questions in the study of the Apostle Paul and those documents often deemed pseudepigraphal. This volume addresses many traditional questions, including those of method and the authenticity of several canonical Pauline letters, but they also reflect a desire to think in new ways about persistent questions surrounding pseudepigraphy. The focus on pseudepigraphy in relationship to Paul affords a unique opportunity to address this innovative inclination, not readily available in studies of New Testament pseudepigraphy in general. Regarding these concerns, new approaches are introduced, traditional evidence is reassessed, and some new suggestions are offered. In addition to Pauline letters, treatments of related non-canonical Pauline pseudepigraphs are included in discussion.
Letters That Paul Did Not Write
Letters That Paul Did Not Write - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Letters That Paul Did Not Write write by Raymond F. Collins. This book was released on 2006-02-10. Letters That Paul Did Not Write available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite its title, the subject of this book is really not the denial of the Pauline authorship of seven books in the New Testament. The subject of this book is the significance of these books in themselves. The second chapter briefly reviews the religious and cultural conditions within which these books were written, thereby elucidating their origins somewhat. The non-Pauline origin of these seven books raises a host of issues for believers, the churches, and exegetes themselves. The final chapter of this book addresses itself to some of these issues. . . . My real hope is that these reflections help the reader to better understand the sacred page. To the extent that my hope is realized, the true significance of Paul the apostle for the life of the church will be appreciated all the more. --from the Foreword
The Epistles to the Thessalonians
The Epistles to the Thessalonians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Epistles to the Thessalonians write by Charles A. Wanamaker. This book was released on 1990. The Epistles to the Thessalonians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The letters of Paul to the newly founded Christian community at Thessalonica hold a special place within the Christian tradition as possibly the earliest extant Christian writings. They are also of special interest not only for their theological value but for their sociological context. Among the communities established by Paul, the church at Thessalonica appears to have been the only one to have suffered serious external oppression. These two important epistles, then, speak uniquely to contemporary Christians living in a society often ideologically, if not politically, opposed to Christian faith.In this innovative commentary Charles A. Wanamaker incorporates what may be called a social science approach to the study of 1 and 2 Thessalonians, taking into full account the social context that gave rise to Paul's correspondence. While Wanamaker in no way ignores traditional historical-critical, linguistic, literary, and theological approaches to writing a commentary -- in fact, at several points he makes a significant contribution to the questions raised by traditional exegesis -- at the same time he goes beyond previous commentaries on the Thessalonian correspondence by taking seriously the social dimensions both of Christianity at Thessalonica and of the texts of 1 and 2 Thessalonians themselves. In blending traditional exegetical methods with this newer approach, Wanamaker seeks to understand Pauline Christianity at Thessalonica as a socio-religious movement in the first-century Greco-Roman world and attempts to grasp the social character and functions of Paul's letters within this context.A significant and original addition to the literature on 1 and 2 Thessalonians, this commentary will be valuable to scholars, pastors, and students alike.
Studies of Paul's Letters to the Thessalonians
Studies of Paul's Letters to the Thessalonians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Studies of Paul's Letters to the Thessalonians write by Dennis Dinger. This book was released on 2013-03-04. Studies of Paul's Letters to the Thessalonians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The two letters from Paul to the Thessalonian saints contain details of the second coming of the Lord, and encouragements to proper behavior leading up to that day. The Thessalonian saints were beset by persecution from rabble rousers and by deceptive words of false teachers. The letters contain explanations, words of comfort, caution, and command, and encouragements to watch, rejoice, walk, and please God. These letters are apropos to the 21st Century because today's saints have similar interests and similar problems to those facing the Thessalonians of the 1st Century . . . plus we are now ∼2000 years closer to the Lord's return!
