Comfort One Another: Resconstructing the Rhetoric and Audience of 1 Thessalonians

by Abraham Smith

This unique study considers the exegetical and hermeneutical possibilities of analyzing the entire letter of 1 Thessalonians as letter of consolation. Abraham Smith maintains that Paul wrote 1 Thessalonians with a full knowledge of the tradition of Greco-Roman letters of consolation and chose the genre to sustain members of the Thessalonian church. Showing how Paul's letter of consolation was understood in Paul's world and by subsequent generations,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0664251781
• ISBN13: 9780664251789
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"