First Epistle to the Thessalonians
Scripture · Epistle · c. 50 — the earliest Christian document · Greek
Very likely the oldest surviving Christian writing: Paul comforting a persecuted infant church about its dead — the Lord will descend, the dead in Christ will rise first. The whole New Testament begins, chronologically, here.
To: the church in Thessalonica
Surviving witnesses
- 𝔓65 · GA P65 · Papiri della Società Italiana XIV 1373 · 3rd century · Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, PSI XIV 1373
Authors
- Paul the Apostle author