Corpus-Paul

["Jeffrey B. Gibson" <jgibson000 AT mailhost.chi.ameritech.net>]

Jerry Sumney wrote:

> Jeffrey,
>
>         This is not really telling you anything, but you might look at Karl
> Donfried's "The Cults of Thesalonica and the Thessalonian Correspondence,"
> _NTS_ 31 (1985): 336-56.  He discusses the Cabiri and gives the sources
> from which he got his information.
>
> Jerry
>

Thanks for this reference. I will look it up today. In the meantime, can you 
-- or
anyone -- tell me about the cults basic beliefs? Were they eschatological in 
any way?
Did they demand a certain type of faithfulness from the cult's adherents? 
What did the
cult promise to its adherents as the benefits of being a cult member?

Yours,

Jeffrey

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