A Short Bibliography on the Thessalonian Letters
(English Language only)


Barton, Bruce B. 1 and 2 Thessalonians. Life Application Commentary, Grant Osborne, General Editor. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 1999.

Best, Ernest.  A Commentary on the First and Second Epistles to the Thessalonians.  Black's New Testament Commentaries. London: Black, 1972.

Boers, Hendrikus.  "The Form Critical Study of Paul's Letters.  1 Thessalonians as a Case Study. "  In New Testament Studies 22 (1976): 140-59.

Bruce, F. F.  1 & 2 Thessalonians.  Word Biblical Commentary. Waco, Texas: Word, 1982.

Collins, Raymond F.  Studies on the First Letter to the Thessalonians.  Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium, volume 66.  Leuven: Leuven University Press,  1984.

______________.  The Thessalonian Correspondence.  Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium,  volume 87.  Leuven: Leuven University Press,  1990.

Donfried, Karl Paul. Paul, Thessalonica, and Early Christianity. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2002.

_______________.  "The Cults of Thessalonica and the Thessalonian Correspondence."  In New Testament Studies 31 (1985): 336-56.

Donfried, Karl Paul, and Marshall, I. Howard.  The Theology of the Shorter Pauline Letters.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Donfried, Karl Paul, and Beutler, Johannes, editors. The Thessalonians Debate: Methodological Discord or Methodological Synthesis?. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2000.

Gaventa, Beverly. First and Second Thessalonians. Louisville: John Knox Press, 1998.

Green, Gene L. The Letters to the Thessalonians. The Pillar New Testament Commentary Series. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2002.

Gundry, R.H.  "The Hellenization of Domincal Tradition and the Christianization of Jewish Tradition in the Eschatology of 1-2 Thessalonians."  In New Testament Studies 33 (1987):161-78.

Jewett, Robert.  The Thessalonian Correspondence : Pauline Rhetoric and Millenarian Piety.  Foundations and Facets. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1986.

Johanson, Bruce C.  To All the Brethren: A Text-Linguistic and Rhetorical Approach to 1 Thessalonians.  Coniectanea biblica: New Testament Series, volume 16.  Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksell International,  1987.

Koester, Helmut.  "1 Thessalonians - Experiment in Christian Writing. "  In  Continuity and Discontinuity in Church History.  Essays Presented to George Huntston Williams, 33-44.  F. Forrester Church and Timothy George, editors.  Studies in the History of Christian Theology, volume 19.  Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1979.

Krentz, Edgar M.  "First and Second Epistles to the Thessalonians."  In Anchor Bible Dictionary 6 (1992): 515-23.

Malbon, Elizabeth C.  "' No Need to Have Anyone Write'?  A Structural Exegesis of 1 Thessalonians."  In Semeia 26 (1983): 57-83.

Malherbe, Abraham. The Letters to the Thessalonians. The Anchor Bible. Volume 32B. NY: Doubleday, 2000.

________________.  Paul and the Thessalonians: The Philosophical Tradition of Pastoral Care.  Philadelphia: Fortress,  1987.

Marshall, I. Howard.  1 & 2 Thessalonians: Based on the Revised Standard Version. New Century Bible. London: Nelson, 1983.

_______________.  "Pauline Theology in the Thessalonian Correspondece."  In Paul and Paulinism, 173-83.   Morna D. Hooker and Stephen G. Wilson, editors. C. K. Barrett FS.  London: SPCK, 1982.

Mearns, C. L.  "Early Eschatological Development in Paul:  The evidence of I and II Thessalonians."  In New Testament Studies 27 (1981):137-57.

Menken, M.J.J.  "Paradise Regained or Still Lost:?  Eschatology and Disorderly Behaviour in 2 Thessalonians."  In New Testament Studies 38 (1993): 271:89.

Morris, Leon.  The First and Second Epistles to the Thessalonians.  Rev.ed. New International Commentary on the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991.

Rigaux, Beda.  Letters of St. Paul:  Modern Studies.  Chicago: Franciscan Herald,  1968.

Russel, R.  "The Idle in 2 Thessalonians 3:6-12: An Eschatological or a Social Problem?"  In New Testament Studies 34 (1988): 105-119.

Sevenster, J.N.  Paul and Seneca.  Supplements to Novum Testamentum, volume 4. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1961.

Tellbe, Mikael. Paul Between Synagogue and State : Christians, Jews, and Civic Authorities in 1 Thessalonians, Romans, and Philippians. Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksell, 2001.

Theissen, Gerd.  The Social Setting of Pauline Christianity:  Essays on Corinth.  Philadelphia: Fortress, 1982.

Tuckett, C. M. "Synoptic Traditions in 1 Thessalonians?" In The Thessalonian Correspondence, 160-182. Raymond F. Collins, editor. Bibliotheca EphemeridumTheologicarum Lovaniensium, volume 87. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1990.

Vos, Craig Steven de. Church and Community Conflicts: The Relationships of the Thessalonian, Corinthian, and Philippian Churches With Their Wider Civic Communities. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999.

Wanamaker, Charles A.  The Epistles to the Thessalonians: A Commentary on the Greek Text.  New International Greek Testament Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1990.

Watson, Duane F, editor. The Intertexture of Apocalyptic Discourse in the New Testament. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2002.

Weima, Jeffrey A. D., and Porter, Stanley E. An Annotated Bibliography of 1 and 2 Thessalonians. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998.

Wright, Tom. Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians. London: SPCK, 2002.

Yeo, Khiok Khng. Chairman Mao Meets the Apostle Paul : Christianity, Communism, and the Hope of China. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2002.