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Introductions

	Herbert Newell Bate [1871-1941], A Guide to the Epistles of Saint Paul. London: Longmans, Green & Co., Ltd., 1926. Hbk. pp.189. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	The Purposes Behind Paul's First Epistle to the Thessalonians (Robert I Bradshaw) pdf
	F.F. Bruce, "The First Epistle to the Thessalonians: An Expanded Paraphrase," The Evangelical Quarterly 33.4 (Oct.-Dec. 1961): 238-239. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	F.F. Bruce, "The First Epistle to the Thessalonians: An Expanded Paraphrase," The Evangelical Quarterly 34.1 (Jan.-Mar. 1962): 39-42. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	F.F. Bruce, "The Second Epistle to the Thessalonians: An Expanded Paraphrase," The Evangelical Quarterly 34.2 (April-June 1962): 103-105. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Karl P. Donfried, Paul, Thessalonica, and Early Christianity. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002. Pbk. ISBN: 0802805094. pp.347.
	Karl P. Donfried, "The Scope and Nature of the Debate: An Introduction and Some Questions," Karl P. Donfried & Johannes Beutler, The Thessalonnians Debate. Methodological Discord or Methological Synthesis? Grand Rapids / Cambridge, UK: Eerdmans, 2000. Pbk. ISBN: 0802843743. pp.3-27.
	James Alexander M'Clymont [1848-1927], The New Testament and Its Writers. Being an Introduction to the Books of the New Testament. London: Adam & Charles Black, 1893. Hbk. pp.288. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	John B. Polhill, "Hope in the Lord: Introduction to 1-2 Thessalonians," Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 3.3 (Fall 1999): 22-44.

Commentaries

	Edward John Bicknell [1882-1934], The First and Second Epistles to the Thessalonians. Westminster Commentaries. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1932. Hbk. pp.100. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	F.F. Bruce, 1 & 2 Thessalonians. Word Biblical Commentary, Vol. 45. Dallas: Word Books, 1982. Hbk. ISBN: 0849902444. pp.228.
	John Eadie [1810-1876], A Commentary on the Greek Text of the Epistles of Paul to the Thessalonians. London: MacMillan & Co. Ltd., 1877. Hbk. pp.373. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Charles John Ellicott [1819-1905], editor, A New Testament commentary for English readers various writers, 3 Vols., 3rd edn. London: Cassell, Petter & Galpin, [1877-79]. Hbk. pp.554+468+641. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	James Denney [1856-1917], The Epistle to the Thessalonians, W. Robertson Nicoll, ed., The Expositor's Bible, New Edition. London: Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. Hbk. pp.404. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Charles John Ellicott [1819-1905], St. Paul's Epistles to the Thessalonians: With a critical and Grammatical commentary and a revised translation, 4th edn. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1880. Hbk. pp.167. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	George Gillanders Findlay [1849-1919], The Epistles to the Thessalonians with Introduction and Map. The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1894. Hbk. pp.183. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	George Gillanders Findlay [1849-1919], The Epistles of Paul to the Thessalonians. Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1904. Hbk. pp.248. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Gene L. Green, The Letters to the Thessalonians. The Pillar New Testament Commentary. Grand Rapids / Leicester: Eerdmans / IVP, 2002. Hbk. ISBN: 0802837387. pp.440.
	Joseph Barber Lightfoot [1828-1889], Notes on the Epistles of Paul from Unpublished Commentaries. London & New York: MacMillan & Co., 1895. Hbk. pp.336. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	I. Howard Marshall, 1 and 2 Thessalonians. The New Century Bible Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1983. Pbk. ISBN: 080281946X. pp.240.
	George Milligan [1860-1934], St Pauls Epistles to the Thessalonians. The Greek text with Introduction and Notes. London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1908. pp.195. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Leon Morris, 1 and 2 Thessalonians. Tyndale New Testament Commentaries. Leicester: IVP, 1989. Pbk. ISBN: 0851118828. pp.152.
	Alfred Plummer [1841-1926], A Commentary on St. Paul's First Epistle to the Thessalonians. London: Robert Scott, 1918. Hbk. pp.116. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Hermann Olshausen [1796-1839], Biblical Commentary on St. Paul's Epistles to the Galatians, Ephesians, Colossians and Thessalonians. Clark's Foreign Theological Library, Vol. XXI. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1861. Hbk. pp.511. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Alfred Plummer [1841-1926], A Commentary on St. Paul's Second Epistle to the Thessalonians. London: Robert Scott, 1918. Hbk. pp.118. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Charles Simeon, Horae Homileticae or Discourses Digested Into One Continued Series and Forming a Commentary, Upon Every Book of the Old and New Testament, Vol. 18: Philippians to 1 Timothy, 6th edn. London: Henry G., Bohn, 1844. pp.269-411. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	I & II Thessalonians (Bob Utley)
	Charles John Vaughan [1816-1897], The Epistles of St. Paul For English Readers. I. The First Epistle to the Thessalonians. Cambridge & London: Macmillan & Co., 1864. Hbk. pp.47. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]

Authorship

J.A. Bailey, "Who Wrote II Thessalonians?" New Testament Studies 25 (1978-79): 131-45.

Theology

	Karl P. Donfried & I. Howard Marshall (edtors), The Theology of the Shorter Pauline Letters. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pbk. ISBN: 052136731X. pp.220.
	I. Howard Marshall, "Pauline Theology in the Thessalonian Correspondence," M.D. Hooker & S.G. Wilson, eds., Paul and Paulinism. Essays In honour C.K. Barrett. London: SPCK, 1982. Hbk. ISBN: 028103835X. pp.173-183. pdf

Other Subjects

	David Alan Black, "The weak in Thessalonica: a study in Pauline lexicography," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 25.3 (Sept. 1982): 307-321. pdf
	David Alan Black, "The Literary Structure of 1 and 2 Thessalonians," Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 3.3 (Fall 1999): 46-57.
	Markus Bockmuehl, "1 Thessalonians 2:14-16 and the Church in Jerusalem," Tyndale Bulletin 52.1 (2001): 1-32. pdf
	H. Boers, "The Form-Critical Study of Paul's Letters: 1 Thessalonians as a Case Study," New Testament Studies 22 (1975-76): 140-58.
	F.F. Bruce, "Christianity Under Claudius," Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 44.1 (March 1962): 309-26. pdf
	F.F. Bruce, "St. Paul in Macedonia: 2. The Thessalonian Correspondence," Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 62 (1980): 328-45.
	Trevor J. Burke, "Pauline Paternity in 1 Thessalonians," Tyndale Bulletin 51.1 (2000): 59-80. pdf
	Trevor J. Burke, Family Matters: A Socio-Historical Study of Kinship Metaphors in 1 Thessalonians, Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement 247. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2003. ISBN: 0826466591.
	Trevor J. Burke, "Paul’s new Family in Thessalonica," Novum Testamentum 54.3 (2012), 269-287.
	J. Chapa, "Is First Thessalonians a Letter of Consolation?" New Testament Studies 40 (1994): 150-60.
	Raymond F. Collins, "Apropos the Integrity of 1 Thes.," Ephemerides Théologiques et Lovanienses 55 (1979): 67-106.
	Raymond F. Collins, The Thessalonian Correspondence. Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1990. Pbk. ISBN: 9068312626. pp.546.
	Raymond F. Collins, "'I Command That This Letter Be Read': Writing as a Manner of Speaking," Karl P. Donfried & Johannes Beutler, The Thessalonnians Debate. Methodological Discord or Methological Synthesis? Grand Rapids / Cambridge, UK: Eerdmans, 2000. Pbk. ISBN: 0802843743. pp.319-339.
	William W. Combs, "Is Apostasia in 2 Thessalonians 2:3 a Reference to the Rapture?" Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal 3 (Fall 1998): 63-88. pdf
	Michael R. Cosby, "Hellenistic Formal Receptions and Paul's Use of APANTHSIS is 1 Thessalonians 4:17," Bulletin for Biblical Research 4 (1994): 15-34. pdf
	C.E.B. Cranfield [1915-2015], "A Study of 1 Thessalonians 2," Irish Biblical Studies 1.4 (1979): 215-226.
	Paul S. Dixon, "The evil restraint in 2 Thess 2:6," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 33.4 (Dec. 1990): 445-449. pdf
	Karl Paul Donfried, "The Cults of Thessalonica and the Thessalonian Correspondence," New Testament Studies 31 (1985): 336-56.
	Karl P. Donfried, "The Epistolary and Rhetorical Context of 1 Thessalonians 2:1-12," Karl P. Donfried & Johannes Beutler, The Thessalonnians Debate. Methodological Discord or Methological Synthesis? Grand Rapids / Cambridge, UK: Eerdmans, 2000. Pbk. ISBN: 0802843743. pp.31-60.
	Duane A. Dunham, "2 Thessalonians 1:3-10: a study in sentence structure," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 24.1 (March 1981): 39-46. pdf
	David deSilva, "Worthy of His Kingdom: Honor Discourse and Social Engineering in 1 Thessalonians," Journal for the Study of the New Testament 64 (1996): 49-79.
	Thomas R. Edgar, "The meaning of 'sleep' in 1 Thessalonians 5:10," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 22.4 (Dec. 1979): 345-349. pdf
	E. Earle Ellis, "Paul and His Co-Workers," New Testament Studies 17 (1970-71): 437-52.
	C.E. Faw, "On the Writing of First Thessalonians," Journal of Biblical Literature 71 (1952): 217-25.
	Charles H. Giblin, The Threat to Faith: An Exegetical and Theological Re-examination of 2 Thessalonians 2. Analecta Biblica 31. Rome: Pontificial Biblical Institute, 1967.
	Michael Goulder, "Silas in Thessalonica," Journal for the Study of the New Testament 48 (1992): 87-106.
	R. Gregson, "A Solution to The Problems of the Thessalonian Epistles," The Evangelical Quarterly 38.2 (April-June 1966): 76-80 pdf . [All reasonable efforts have been made to contact the copyright holder of this article without success. If you hold the rights, please contact me]
	Robert H. Gundry, "A Brief Note on 'Hellenisic Formal Receptions and Paul's Use of APANTESIS in 1 Thessalonians 4:17," Bulletin for Biblical Research 6 (1996): 39-41. pdf
	Greg H. Harris, "Does God Deceive? Toward a Biblical Understanding of the Deluding Spirit of Second Thessalonians 2:11," The Master's Seminary Journal 16.1 (Spring 2005): 73-93. pdf
	J.R. Harrison, "Paul and the Imperial Gospel at Thessaloniki," Journal for the Study of the New Testament 25.1 (2002): 71-96. [Abstract]
	R.F. Hock, "The Workshop as a Social Setting for Paul's Missionary Preaching," Catholic Biblical Quarterly 41 (1979): 438-50.
	Traugott Holtz, "On the Background of 1 Thessalonians 2:1-12," Karl P. Donfried & Johannes Beutler, The Thessalonnians Debate. Methodological Discord or Methological Synthesis? Grand Rapids / Cambridge, UK: Eerdmans, 2000. Pbk. ISBN: 0802843743. pp.69-80.
	Rudolf Hoppe, "The Epistolary and Rhetorical Context of 1 Thessalonians 2:1-12: A Response to Karl P. Donfried," Karl P. Donfried & Johannes Beutler, The Thessalonnians Debate. Methodological Discord or Methological Synthesis? Grand Rapids / Cambridge, UK: Eerdmans, 2000. Pbk. ISBN: 0802843743. pp.61-68.
	W. Horbury, "I Thessalonians ii.3 as Rebutting the Charge of False Prophecy," Journal of Theological Studies 33 (1982): 492-508.
	P.H.R. van Houwelingen, "The Great Reunion: The Meaning and Significance of the 'Word of the Lord' in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18," Calvin Theological Journal 42 (2007): 308-324. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the editor]
	Tracy L. Howard,"The Literary Unity of 1 Thessalonians 4:13-5:11," Grace Theological Journal 9.2(1988) 163-190. pdf
	Frank Witt Hughes, Early Christian Rhetoric and 2 Thessalonians. Journal of the Study of the New Testament Supplement 30. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1989. ISBN: 1850751374. pp.158.
	Frank W. Hughes, "The Rhetoric of Letters," Karl P. Donfried & Johannes Beutler, The Thessalonnians Debate. Methodological Discord or Methological Synthesis? Grand Rapids / Cambridge, UK: Eerdmans, 2000. Pbk. ISBN: 0802843743. pp.194-240.
	Frank W. Hughes, "The Social Situations Implied by Rhetoric," Karl P. Donfried & Johannes Beutler, The Thessalonnians Debate. Methodological Discord or Methological Synthesis? Grand Rapids / Cambridge, UK: Eerdmans, 2000. Pbk. ISBN: 0802843743. pp.241-254.
	Robert Jewett, Thessalonian Correspondence: Pauline Rhetoric and Millenarian Piety. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1986. Hbk. ISBN: 0800621115. pp.256.
	Bruce C. Johanson, To All the Brethren: Text-linguistic and Rhetorical Approach to 1 Thessalonians. Coniectanea Biblica, New Testament Studies 16. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1987. Pbk. ISBN: 9122008659. pp.244.
	Edwin A. Judge, "The Decrees of Caesae at Thessalonica," Reformed Theological Review 30 (1975): 1-7.
	Bruce N. Kaye, "Eschatology and Ethics in 1 and 2 Thessalonians," Novum Testamentum 17 (1975): 47-57.
	Edgar Krentz, "1 Thessalonians: Rhetorical Flourishes and Formal Contraints," Karl P. Donfried & Johannes Beutler, The Thessalonnians Debate. Methodological Discord or Methological Synthesis? Grand Rapids / Cambridge, UK: Eerdmans, 2000. Pbk. ISBN: 0802843743. pp.287-318.
	Jan Lambrecht, "Thanksgivings in 1 Thessalonians 1-3," Karl P. Donfried & Johannes Beutler, The Thessalonnians Debate. Methodological Discord or Methological Synthesis? Grand Rapids / Cambridge, UK: Eerdmans, 2000. Pbk. ISBN: 0802843743. pp.135-162.
	Jan Lambrecht, "A Structural Analysis of 1 Thessalonians 4-5," Karl P. Donfried & Johannes Beutler, The Thessalonnians Debate. Methodological Discord or Methological Synthesis? Grand Rapids / Cambridge, UK: Eerdmans, 2000. Pbk. ISBN: 0802843743. pp.163-178.
	Richard N. Longenecker, "The Nature of Paul's Early Eschatology," New Testament Studies 31 (1985): 85-95.
	Richard N. Longenecker, "On the Form, Function, and Authority of the New Testament Letters," D.A. Carson & John D. Woodbridge, eds. Scripture and Truth. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1983. pp.101-14.
	E.S. Malbon, "'No Need to Have Any One Write'? A Structural Exegesis of 1 Thessalonians," Semeia 26 (1983): 57-83.
	Abraham J. Malherbe, "'Gentle as a Nurse': The Cynic Background of 1 Thess ii," Novum Testamentum 12 (1970): 203-17.
	Abraham J. Malherbe, "Exhortation in First Thessalonians," Novum Testamentum 25 (1983): 238-56.
	Abraham J. Malherbe, Paul and the Thessalonians: The Philosophic Tradition of Pastoral Care 2nd edn. Word Publishing, 1987. Pbk. ISBN: 0800619633. pp.120.
	C.L. Mearns, "Early Eschatological Development in Paul: The Evidence of I and II Thessalonians," New Testament Studies 27 (1980-81): 137-57.
	Otto Merk, "1 Thessalonians 2:1-12: An Exegetical-Theological Study," Karl P. Donfried & Johannes Beutler, The Thessalonnians Debate. Methodological Discord or Methological Synthesis? Grand Rapids / Cambridge, UK: Eerdmans, 2000. Pbk. ISBN: 0802843743. pp.89-113.
	Robin Ernest Nixon [1932-1978], "Dating the Epistles," The Theological Students Fellowship Terminal Letter 17 (Spring 1957): 7-10. pdf All reasonable efforts have been made to contact the current copyright holder without success. If you hold the rights, please contact me]
	Peter Oakes, "Re-mapping the Universe: Paul and the Emperor in 1 Thessalonians and Philippians," Journal for the Study of the New Testament 27.3, (2005): 301-322. [Abstract]
	Arthur G. Patzia, "Deutero-Pauline Hypothesis: an Attempt at Clarification," The Evangelical Quarterly 52.1 (Jan-Mar. 1980): 27-42. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Birger A. Pearson, "1 Thessalonians 2:13-16: A Deutero-Pauline Interpolation," Harvard Theological Review 64 (1971): 79-94.
	Joseph Plevnik, "The Taking Up of the Faithful and the Resurrection of the Dead in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18," Catholic Biblical Quarterly 46 (1984): 274-83
	Joseph Plevnik, S.J., "1 Thessalonians 4,17: The Bringing in of the Lord or the Bringing in of the Faithful?" Biblica 80 (1999): 537-546.
	Charles E. Powell, "The Identity of the 'Restrainer' in 2 Thessalonians 2:6-7," Bibliotheca Sacra 154: 615 (1997): 320-332.
	Vern S. Poythress, "2 Thessalonians 1 Supports Amillennialism," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 37.4 (Dec. 1994): 529-538. pdf
	John Proctor, "Professionalism and Ministry. (Some insights from 1 Thessalonians 2.1-12)," Evangel 17.2 (Summer 1999): 33-39. pdf [Reproduced by kind permission of the copyright holder]
	Charles L. Quarles, "The Apo of 2 Thessalonians 1:9 and the Nature of Eternal Punishment," Westminster Theological Journal 59.2 (1997): 201-211.
	Johannes Schoon-Janßen, "On the Use of Elements of Ancient Epistolography in 1 Thessalonians," Karl P. Donfried & Johannes Beutler, The Thessalonnians Debate. Methodological Discord or Methological Synthesis? Grand Rapids / Cambridge, UK: Eerdmans, 2000. Pbk. ISBN: 0802843743. pp.179-193.
	P. Schubert, Structure and Function of the Pauline Thanksgiving. Berlin: Töpelmann, 1939.
	Mark A. Seifrid, "Faith, Hope, and Love: Paul's Message to the Church at Thessalonica," Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 3.3 (Fall 1999): 58-64.
	Abraham Smith, Comfort One Another: Reconstructing the Rhetoric and Audience of I Thessalonians. Literary Currents in Biblical Interpretation. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1995. Pbk. ISBN: 0664251781. pp.160.
	Jay E. Smith, "1 Thessalonians 4:4: Breaking the Impasse," Bulletin for Biblical Research 11.1 (2001): 65-105. pdf
	Merrill F. Unger, "Historical Research and the Church at Thessalonica," Bibliotheca Sacra 119: 473 (1962): 33-44.
	R.E.H. Uprichard, "The Person and Work of Christ in 1 Thessalonians," The Evangelical Quarterly 53.2 (Apr.-June. 1981): 108-114. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	R.E.H. Uprichard, "Exposition of 1 Thessalonians 4: 13-18," Irish Biblical Studies 1.3 (July 1979): 150-156. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	R.E.H. Uprichard, "The Person and Work of Christ in Thessalonians," Evangel 3:1 (1985): 6-9. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Johan S. Vos, "On the Background of 1 Thessalonians 2:1-12: A Response to Traugott Holtz," Karl P. Donfried & Johannes Beutler, The Thessalonnians Debate. Methodological Discord or Methological Synthesis? Grand Rapids / Cambridge, UK: Eerdmans, 2000. Pbk. ISBN: 0802843743. pp.81-88.
	Steve Walton, "What Has Aristotle to Do with Paul? Rhetorical Criticism and 1 Thessalonians," Tyndale Bulletin 46.2 (1995): 229-250. pdf
	Steve Walton, "Leadership and Lifestyle: Luke's Paul, Luke's Jesus and the Paul of 1 Thessalonians'" Tyndale Bulletin 48.2 (1997): 377-380. pdf
	Charles A. Wanamaker, "Epistolary vs. Rhetorical Analysis: Is a Synthesis Possible?" Karl P. Donfried & Johannes Beutler, The Thessalonnians Debate. Methodological Discord or Methological Synthesis? Grand Rapids / Cambridge, UK: Eerdmans, 2000. Pbk. ISBN: 0802843743. pp.255-286.
	G. Henry Waterman, "The Sources of Paul's Teaching on the 2nd Coming Of Christ In 1 and 2 Thessalonians," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 18.2 (1975): 105-113.
	Jeffrey A.D. Weima, "The Function of 1 Thessalonians 2:1-12 and the Use of Rhetorical Criticism: A Response to Otto Merk," Karl P. Donfried & Johannes Beutler, The Thessalonnians Debate. Methodological Discord or Methological Synthesis? Grand Rapids / Cambridge, UK: Eerdmans, 2000. Pbk. ISBN: 0802843743. pp.114-131.
	Bruce W. Winter, "'If a Man Does Not Wish to Work..' A Cultural and Historical Setting for 2 Thessalonians 3:6-16," Tyndale Bulletin 40.2 (1989): 303-315. pdf
	Bruce W. Winter, "The Entries and Ethics of Orators and Paul (1 Thessalonians 2:1-12)," Tyndale Bulletin 44.1 (1993): 55-74. pdf
	Robert W. Yarbrough, "Sexual Gratification in 1 Thess 4:1-8," Trinity Journal 20.2 (1999): 215-232.