Introduction
1. The Structure and Function of 1 Thessalonians 1-3, and the Occasion and Purpose of 1 Thessalonians
2. Jesus the Son of God as the Gospel (1 Thess 1:9-10 and Rom 1:3-4)
3. The Gospel That Paul Preached to the Thessalonians:Continuity and Unity of Paul's Gospel in 1 Thessalonians and in His Later Epistles
4. Jesus' Son of Man Sayings as a Basis for Paul's Gospel of Jesus the Son of God (1 Thess 1:9-10 and Rom 1:3-4)
5. Jesus' Ransom Saying (Mark 10:45//Matt 20:28) and Eucharistic Saying (Mark 14:21-25 and parr.) Echoed in 1 Thessalonians and Other Pauline Epistles
6. The Jesus Tradition in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-5:11
7. The Idleness of Some Thessalonians
8. The Thessalonian Church as Paul's "hope or joy or crown of boasting" (1 Thess 2:19-20): Judgment according to Works and Reward for Good Deeds, or the Structure of Paul's Doctrine of Justification
9. Is Paul Preaching a Counter-Imperial Gospel in 1 Thessalonians?
10. Paul and the Roman Empire
11. Paul's Common Paraenesis (1 Thess 4-5; Phil 2-4; and Rom 12-13), the Correspondence between Romans 1:18-32 and 12:1-2, and the Unity of Romans 12-13
12. Paul's Doctrine of Justification in 2 Thessalonians 1-2, and Its Implications for Pauline Theology and 2 Thessalonians
13. "The Restraining Thing" (t? ?at????) and "the Restraining Person" (? ?at????) of "the Lawless Man" (2 Thess 2:1-12)
14. "Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God" (Rom 12:19; cf. 2 Thess 1:5-7): The Apostle Paul and lex talionis
15. Imitatio Christi (1 Cor 11:1): How Paul Imitates Jesus Christ in Dealing with Idol Food (1 Cor 8-10)
16. Paul as an Eschatological Herald
17. Paul the Pastor: His Preaching and Ministry
18. Paul and Violence
Appendix
Jesus and the Temple
