NT038-812 - Interpreting and Applying 1 & 2 Thessalonians
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2,976 Standard Tuition Fee
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12Credit Points
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0.125 EFT
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8AQF level
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Category advanced unitC
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new testamentUnit Discipline
Prerequisites
24cps NT
Exclusions
Prior to 2020, this unit content was delivered under the unit code NT707-4.
Set Text
This unit counts towards the "set text" unit requirements of courses.Learning outcomes
On successful completion of this unit, students willA. Know and understand
1. Demonstrate Advanced knowledge and understanding of, and the research underlying, the interpretation and application of I and II Thessalonians
B. Be able to
1. Examine recent scholarship in its bearing on the interpretation and application of I and II Thessalonians
2. Demonstrate skill in utilising diverse scholarship in the interpretation and application of I and II Thessalonians
3. Present Research-Aware evidence-based perspectives on the interpretation and application of I and II Thessalonians
C. Be in a position to
1. Applying Advanced perspectives and skills from ‘Interpreting and Applying I and II Thessalonians’ to ministry practice and Christian living as a reflective practitioner
Content
- apostleship and authority
- parousia
- hope
- holiness
- death and resurrection
- return of Christ
- day of the Lord
- justice of God
- man of lawlessness
- church discipline
Set Readings
This unit's indicative bibliography is currently being revised. Students should contact their home college for further details at the time of taking this unit.
Prescribed:
Fee, Gordon. First and Second Letters to the Thessalonians, New International Commentary of the New Testament, ed. Joel Green. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009.
Or
Green, Gene. Letters to the Thessalonians. Pillar New Testament Commentary Series, ed. D. A. Carson. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002.
Or
Weima, Jeffrey. 1–2 Thessalonians. Baker Exegetical Series, ed. Robert Stein and Robert Yarbrough. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2014.
Recommended:
Donfried, Karl Paul. Paul, Thessalonica, and Early Christianity. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2002.
Foster, Paul. “Who Wrote 2 Thessalonians? A Fresh Look at an Old Problem” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 35:2 (2012) 150–175.
Judge, E. A. The First Christians in the Roman World: Augustinian and New Testament Essays. Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2008.
Longenecker, Richard. “The Nature of Paul's Early Eschatology.” New Testament Studies 31 (1985): 85–95.
Nicholl, Colin R. From Hope to Despair in Thessalonica: Situating 1 and 2 Thessalonians. Society of New Testament Monograph Series 126. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Roose, H. “’A Letter as by Us’: Intentional Ambiguity in 2 Thessalonians 2:2.” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 29 (2006) 107–24.
Stanley, Christopher D. “Who’s Afraid of a Thief in the Night?” New Testament Studies 48 (2002) 468–86.
Thiselton, A. 1 and 2 Thessalonians through the Centuries. Oxford: Wiley–Blackwell, 2011.
Wanamaker, Charles A. “Epistolary vs. Rhetorical Analysis: Is a Synthesis Possible?” In The Thessalonian Debate: Methodological Discord or Methodological Synthesis?, ed. Karl P. Donfried and Johannes Beutler, 255–86. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2000.
Weima, Jeffrey. "'Peace and Security' (1 Thess 5.3). Prophetic Warning or Political Propaganda?" New Testament Studies 58 (2012) 331-358.
Classics:
Bruce, F. F. 1 & 2 Thessalonians. Word Biblical Commentary, ed. Ralph P. Martin, vol. 45. Waco, TX: Word Books, 1982.
Donfried, Karl P., and I. Howard Marshall. The Theology of the Shorter Pauline Letters. New Testament Theology, ed. James D. G. Dunn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Wanamaker, Charles A. The Epistles to the Thessalonians. New International Greek Testament Commentary, ed. I. Howard Marshall and Donald A. Hagner. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1990.
Commentaries:
Beale, G. K. 1–2 Thessalonians. InterVarsity Press New Testament Commentary. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarstiy Press, 2003.
Malherbe, Abraham J. The Letters to the Thessalonians. Anchor Bible, ed. William Foxwell Albright and David Noel Freedman, vol. 32B. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 2000.
Witherington, Ben III. 1 and 2 Thessalonians: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006.