ABSTRACT
The topic to be discussed in this chapter is the religious milieu of 2 Thessalonians. How must we locate the way of speaking about God and man that we meet in this letter among the religious movements that we find in the Mediterranean at the beginning of our era? It is obvious that we have to look here in the first place to the variegated world of early Judaism and early Christianity. Maybe such an effort to connect 2 Thessalonians with well-known religious attitudes of mind, together with some of our earlier findings, can help us in determining as closely as possible the place and date of composition of the letter.
