This chapter contains sections titled:

• The Aims of Reception History

• The Situation and Substance of 1 Thessalonians

• The City of Thessalonica

• Traditional and Nineteenth-Century Arguments about the

• Authenticity of 2 Thessalonians and Their Criticism

• The Situation and Substance of 2 Thessalonians

• Some Key Interpreters in the Reception History of 1 and 2 Thessalonians