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Why You’ll Love This Book:

  • Explores earliest Christian letters' context
  • Connects Thessalonians to Jewish apocalypticism
  • Highlights socio-political background of Thessalonica
  • Reviews ongoing academic debates on eschatology
1 and 2 Thessalonians
By Nijay K. Gupta, Series edited by Michael F. Bird
Part of the Zondervan Critical Introductions to the New Testament Series series

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Weight 534g
Dimensions 23.6 × 15.7 × 2.7 cm
Format

Hardback
Pages

320
Publisher

Zondervan Academic
Publication Date

19/09/2019
ISBN: 9780310518716

The study of Paul’s Thessalonian letters is enjoying fresh interest today. These texts are considered by many to be amongst the earliest extant Christian documents. They are included in conversations about early Jewish and Christian apocalypticism. New insights are coming from examination of the religious, socio-cultural, and political contexts of Roman Thessalonica. And, looking back, these letters have played an important role in the development of Christian eschatology. This volumes serves as an up-to-date guide to these academic discussions and debates and much more.

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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 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
Having written a fine commentary on the Thessalonian correspondence, Nijay Gupta now deftly reviews the main critical and theological issues in the analysis of those letters, including the major interpreters for the principal issues. Gupta’s engaging prose makes the details of scholarly debate and the history of interpretation anything but dull. Moreover, we are also treated to the author’s wise take on these various matters. All scholars and serious students of 1 and 2 Thessalonians are greatly in Gupta’s debt.
MICHAEL J. GORMAN, Raymond E. Brown Professor of Biblical Studies and Theology, St. Mary’s Seminary & University
Here in one volume is everything we need to know to help us to read these two lively letters of Paul with greater depth and understanding. Written with great clarity and an impressively thorough grasp of scholarship on these letters, Gupta provides us with in-depth discussions of matters such as the background, theology, major exegetical and interpretive issues, and the history of interpretation for 1 and 2 Thessalonians. The new series of Zondervan Critical Introductions, launched by this excellent volume by Gupta, is to be warmly welcomed as broad-ranging volumes that will greatly help us to read Scripture carefully, and with richer insight.
PAUL TREBILCO, theology programme, University of Otago
In this balanced introduction, Nijay Gupta presents an up-to- date survey of all the major issues pertaining to the Pauline letters to Thessalonian Jesus-followers. Gupta is well versed in scholarly conversations and explores issues expertly and clearly. This is a welcome addition to the best of scholarship on these important texts.
BRUCE LONGENECKER, professor of Christian origins and W. W. Melton Chair of Religion, Baylor University

1 and 2 Thessalonians
Michael F. Bird | Nijay K Gupta
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Why You’ll Love This Book:

  • Explores earliest Christian letters' context
  • Connects Thessalonians to Jewish apocalypticism
  • Highlights socio-political background of Thessalonica
  • Reviews ongoing academic debates on eschatology
1 and 2 Thessalonians
Michael F. Bird | Nijay K Gupta

The study of Paul’s Thessalonian letters is enjoying fresh interest today. These texts are considered by many to be amongst the earliest extant Christian documents. They are included in conversations about early Jewish and Christian apocalypticism. New insights are coming from examination of the religious, socio-cultural, and political contexts of Roman Thessalonica. And, looking back, these letters have played an important role in the development of Christian eschatology. This volumes serves as an up-to-date guide to these academic discussions and debates and much more.

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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 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

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£35.00

3 in stock

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The study of Paul’s Thessalonian letters is enjoying fresh interest today. These texts are considered by many to be amongst the earliest extant Christian documents. They are included in conversations about early Jewish and Christian apocalypticism. New insights are coming from examination of the religious, socio-cultural, and political contexts of Roman Thessalonica. And, looking back, these letters have played an important role in the development of Christian eschatology. This volumes serves as an up-to-date guide to these academic discussions and debates and much more.

Show More

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 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

Additional information

Weight 534g
Dimensions 23.6 × 15.7 × 2.7 cm
Format

Hardback
Pages

320
Publisher

Zondervan Academic
Publication Date

19/09/2019
ISBN: 9780310518716
Having written a fine commentary on the Thessalonian correspondence, Nijay Gupta now deftly reviews the main critical and theological issues in the analysis of those letters, including the major interpreters for the principal issues. Gupta’s engaging prose makes the details of scholarly debate and the history of interpretation anything but dull. Moreover, we are also treated to the author’s wise take on these various matters. All scholars and serious students of 1 and 2 Thessalonians are greatly in Gupta’s debt.
MICHAEL J. GORMAN, Raymond E. Brown Professor of Biblical Studies and Theology, St. Mary’s Seminary & University
Here in one volume is everything we need to know to help us to read these two lively letters of Paul with greater depth and understanding. Written with great clarity and an impressively thorough grasp of scholarship on these letters, Gupta provides us with in-depth discussions of matters such as the background, theology, major exegetical and interpretive issues, and the history of interpretation for 1 and 2 Thessalonians. The new series of Zondervan Critical Introductions, launched by this excellent volume by Gupta, is to be warmly welcomed as broad-ranging volumes that will greatly help us to read Scripture carefully, and with richer insight.
PAUL TREBILCO, theology programme, University of Otago
In this balanced introduction, Nijay Gupta presents an up-to- date survey of all the major issues pertaining to the Pauline letters to Thessalonian Jesus-followers. Gupta is well versed in scholarly conversations and explores issues expertly and clearly. This is a welcome addition to the best of scholarship on these important texts.
BRUCE LONGENECKER, professor of Christian origins and W. W. Melton Chair of Religion, Baylor University
Nijay K. Gupta

Nijay K. Gupta (PhD, University of Durham) is professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary. He is the author of several academic books including 1-2 Thessalonians (ZCINT), Paul and the Language of Faith, 15 New Testament Words of Life and has published commentaries on Colossians, Philippians, and Galatians. He is co-editor of The State of New Testament Studies and the second edition of Dictionary of Paul and His Letters. Michael F. Bird (PhD, University of Queensland) is Deputy Principal and Lecturer in Theology at Ridley College, Australia. He is the author of numerous scholarly and popular books on the New Testament and theology, including Evangelical Theology, Seven Things I Wish Christians Knew about the Bible, and with N. T. Wright,?The New Testament in Its World.

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