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Dodd, “The brain of Paul, II,” in New testomony reviews (Manchester: Manchester college Press, 1953), 108–28; cf. Günther Klein, “Apokalyptische Naherwartung bei Paulus,” in Neues testomony und christliche Existenz, ed. H. D. Betz and L. Schottroff (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1973), 241–63; Jörg Baumgarten, Paulus und die Apokalyptik: Die Auslegung apokalyptischer Überlieferungen in den echten Paulus Briefen 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 107 five . okay A I R O S ( B ') 33. (Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1975); Gerd Lüdemann, Paulus, der Heidenapostel (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1983), 1:213–71. A. F. J. Klijn, “1 Thessalonians 4:13–18 and Its heritage in Apocalyptic Literature,” in Paul and Paulinism, ed. Morna D. Hooker and Stephen G. Wilson (London: Society for selling Christian wisdom, 1982), sixty seven– seventy three; Helmut Koester, creation to the hot testomony, vol. 2, heritage and Literature of Early Christianity, 2d ed. (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2000), a hundred and twenty. David Wenham, The Rediscovery of Jesus’ Eschatological Discourse (Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1984), 328; C. M. Tuckett, “Synoptic Traditions in 1 Thessalonians,” within the Thessalonian Correspondence, ed. R. F. Collins (Leuven: Leuven collage Press, 1990), 171; Koester, advent to the recent testomony, 2:120. Pss. Sol. 8:18, describing the hubris with which Pompey occupied Jerusalem and desecrated the temple: “He entered with peace (met’ eire¯ne¯s), as a father enters his son’s residence; he set his ft with protection (meta asphaleias). ” The slogan, as Paul employs it, is maybe tailored from the political realm, as a problem to the “peace and safety” claimed as an success by means of the Roman rulers: therefore, Helmut Koester, “From Paul’s Eschatology to the Apocalyptic Scheme of two Thessalonians,” in Paul and His global: studying the hot testomony in Its Context (Minneapolis: citadel Press, 2007), 55–69, the following sixty two: “As a political slogan, eire¯ne¯ kai asphaleia = pax et securitas is better ascribed to the world of Roman imperial propaganda. ” C. L. Mearns, “Early Eschatological improvement in Paul,” New testomony reports 27 (1980–81), 137–51; Lüdemann, Paulus, der Heidenapostel, 1:230, 239–40; Koester, advent to the recent testomony, 2:120. Joseph Plevnik, “The Parousia as Implication of Christ’s Resurrection: An Exegesis of one Thess. 4:13–18,” in note and Spirit: Essays in Honor of David Michael Stanley, S. J. , ed. J. Plevnik (Willowdale: Regis university Press, 1975), 199–277; Lüdemann, Paulus, der Heidenapostel, 1:231–63; Brown, “Paul and the Parousia,” 64–65, 67–70. Koester, “From Paul’s Eschatology to the Apocalyptic Scheme of two Thessalonians,” fifty nine, staring at that “the time period parousia is a weird function” of the 5 . ok A I R O S ( B ') 108 Thessalonian correspondence. As has been usually famous, there aren't any makes use of of the time period parousia in connection with the second one coming of Jesus in Galatians, 2 Corinthians, Philippians, or Romans: James D. G. Dunn, The Theology of Paul the Apostle (Grand Rapids, Mich. : Eerdmans, 1998), 307; de Boer, “Paul and Apocalyptic Eschatology,” 183, 184.