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4 - The Thessalonian and Corinthian Letters

from Part II - The Pauline Letter Collection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2020

By
Margaret Y. MacDonald
Edited by
Bruce W. Longenecker
Bruce W. Longenecker
Affiliation:
Baylor University, Texas
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Summary

This essay discusses the texts that, through their commonalities and differences, illustrate various ways in which early forms of Jesus-devotion were relating to their contexts within the Roman world and how Paul addressed particular issues that arose within those communities

Keywords

ThessaloniansCorinthiansRoman worldapocalypticSpiritChristian social interactionearly Christian familiesearly Christian community
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The New Cambridge Companion to St. Paul , pp. 69 - 91
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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Further Reading

Barclay, John M. G. “Thessalonica and Corinth: Social Contrasts in Pauline Christianity.” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 47 (1992): 49–74.Google Scholar
Collins, Raymond F. Second Corinthians. Paideia. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2013.Google Scholar
Gaventa, Beverly. First and Second Thessalonians. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2012.Google Scholar
Horsley, Richard A., ed. Paul and Empire: Religion and Power in Roman Imperial Society. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press, 1997.Google Scholar
Jewett, Robert. “Tenement Churches and Communal Meals in the Early Church.” Biblical Research 38 (1993): 23–43.Google Scholar
McNeel, Jennifer Houston. Paul as Infant and Nursing Mother: Metaphor, Rhetoric and Identity in 1 Thessalonians 2:5–8. Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2014.Google Scholar
Meeks, Wayne. The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1983.Google Scholar
Morris, Helen. “The City as Foil (Not Friend nor Foe): Conformity and Subversion in 1 Corinthians 12:12–31.” In The Urban World of the First Christians, edited by Walton, Steve, Trebilco, Paul R., and Gill, David W. J., 141–159. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2017.Google Scholar
Okland, Jorunn, Women in Their Place: Paul and the Corinthian Discourse of Gender and Sanctuary Space. London: T&T Clark, 2004.Google Scholar
Osiek, Carolyn and MacDonald, Margaret Y. (with Janet Tulloch). A Woman’s Place: House Churches in Earliest Christianity. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Fortress, 2006.Google Scholar
Thiselton, Anthony C. The First Epistle to the Corinthians. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2013.Google Scholar
Wire, Antoinette Clark. The Corinthian Women Prophets: A Reconstruction through Paul’s Rhetoric. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1990.Google Scholar

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