Bibliography
Bibliography of major sources and additional sources used in this study of Paul's Second Letter to the Thessalonians (2 Thess.).
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March 8, 2025
Major Sources
Barclay, William. The Letters to the Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians. The Westminster Press, Revised Edition, 1975.
Brown, Raymond E. An Introduction to the New Testament. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997.
Cousins, Peter E. “2 Thessalonians.” The International Bible Commentary: With the New International Version. F.F. Bruce, General Editor. Marshall Pickering/Zondervan, 1986.
Demarest, Gary W. 1, 2 Thessalonians; 1, 2 Timothy; and Titus. The Communicator’s Commentary (Mastering the New Testament), Lloyd J. Ogilvie, general editor. Word Books, 1984.
Giblin, Charles Homer, S.J. “The Second Letter to the Thessalonians.” The New Jerome Biblical Commentary. Edited by Raymond E. Brown, et al. Prentice Hall, 1990.
Havener, Ivan, OSB. First Thessalonians, Philippians, Philemon, Second Thessalonians, Colossians, Ephesians. Collegeville Bible Commentary, The Liturgical Press, 1983.
Ignatius Catholic Study Bible: The New Testament, Revised Standard Edition, Second Catholic Edition. Ignatius Press, 2010.
Interlinear Bible. Bible Hub, https://biblehub.com/interlinear/.
Liddell, Henry George and Robert Scott. An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon, Founded Upon the Seventh Edition of Liddell and Scott’s Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1899. For the full Lexicon from 1940 available online, see A Greek-English Lexicon, Furman Classics Editions, http://folio2.furman.edu/lsj/ or A Greek-English Lexicon, Internet Archive, Volume I: https://archive.org/details/b31364949_0001/mode/2up and Volume II: https://archive.org/details/b31364949_0002/mode/2up.
New American Bible, revised edition (NABRE). Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, 2010. Scripture texts in this work are taken from the New American Bible, revised edition © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Washington, D.C. and are used by permission of the copyright owner. All Rights Reserved. No part of the New American Bible may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the copyright owner.
The New Jerome Biblical Commentary. Edited by Raymond E. Brown, et al. Prentice Hall, 1990.
The New Oxford Annotated Bible: New Revised Standard Version: With the Apocrypha: An Ecumenical Study Bible. Eds. Michael D. Coogan, Marc Z. Brettler, Carol A. Newsom, and Pheme Perkins. 4th ed. Oxford University Press, 2010.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance. Bible Hub, https://biblehub.com/greek/21.htm.
Vine, William E. Vine’s Expository Dictionary, 1940, StudyLight.org, https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/ved.html.
Additional Sources
Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church. Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2005.
“The Dignity of Work and the Rights of Workers,” United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, https://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/what-we-believe/catholic-social-teaching/the-dignity-of-work-and-the-rights-of-workers.
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