The Bonds of Affection – Additional Resources

Further Reading:

Abraham Malherbe, “Gentle as a Nurse: The Cynic Background to 1 Thessalonians 2,” Novum Testamentum 12 (1970) 203–17.

Jennifer Houston McNeal, “Feeding with Milk: Paul’s Nursing Metaphors in Context,” Review and Expositor 110 (2013) 561–75.

Karl Paul Donfried, “The Epistolary and Rhetorical Context of 1 Thess 2.1–12,” in idem, Paul, Thessalonica, and Early Christianity (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002) 163–94.

Articles: (click to view)

• Opposition at Thessalonica, at Ligonier Ministries
• The First Letter of Paul to the Thessalonians Online Commentary, by John W. Martens

Podcasts: (click to access)

“Apostle, Parent, Nurse” (Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost), Chapter, Verse, and Season: A Lectionary Podcast from Yale Bible Study