Comfort one another
Subtitle: reconstructing the rhetoric and audience of 1 Thessalonians
By: Abraham Smith.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Literary currents in biblical interpretation
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Louisville, Ky
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Bible. N.T. Thessalonians, 1st -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Bible. N.T. Thessalonians, 1st -- Language, style.
Description: This unique study considers the exegetical and hermeneutical possibilities of analyzing the entire letter of 1 Thessalonians as a 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 this genre to sustain members of the Thessalonian church. Smith explicates the social and literary conventions of this tradition and fully discloses why this particular rhetoric of care was employed.

Showing how Paul's letter of consolation was understood in Paul's world and by subsequent generations, Smith demonstrates the usefulness of Paul's rhetoric of comfort for modern society.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 140-153) and indexes.