Abraham Malherbe, “Ethics in Context: the Thessalonians and their Neighbors,” Restoration Quarterly 54 (2012) 201–18.
Karl Paul Donfried, “Was Timothy in Athens? Some Exegetical Reflections on 1 Thess 3.1–3,” in idem, Paul, Thessalonica, and Early Christianity (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002) 209–20.