The Thessalonians Debate Methodological Discord or Methodological Synthesis ?

includes index and biblioraphy

The scope and Nature of the Debate : An Introduction and some Questions ..............3 1. Thessalonians 2: 1-12 as Symptomatic of the exegetical Debate The Epistolary and Rhetorical context of I thessalonians ...........31 The epistology and Rhetorical Context of I thessalonians : A response to Karl P. Donfried.........61 On the Background of I thessalonians 2: 1-12............69 On the Background of I thessalonians 2: 1-12: A response to Traugott Holtz .............81 I Thessalonians 2: 1-12 : An exegetical - Theological Study ..............89 The function of I Thessalonians 2: 1-12 and the use of Rhetorical Criticism : A response to Otto Merk ............114 2. I thessalonians : The Methodological Debate Thanksgiving Analysis in I thessalonians 4-5.............163 On the Use of Elements of Ancient Epistolography in I thessalonians...........179 Rhetorical Analysis The Rehotorical Analysis The Rhetoric of Letters.........194 The Social Situations implied by Rhetoric ..................241 Is Synthesis Possible Epistolary Vs. Rhetorical Analysis : Is a Synthesis Possible ............255 I thessalonians : Rhetorical And Formal Constraints ...........................287 I command that this letter be Read: Writing as a manner of Speaking ...............319