Reading First Peter with New Eyes: Methodological Reassessments of the Letter of First Peter

by Robert L. Webb (Editor), Betsy Bauman-Martin (Editor)

Overview

Reading First Peter with New Eyes is the second of four volumes that incorporate essays examining the impact of recent methodological advances in New Testament studies of the letters of James, 1 and 2 Peter and Jude. It includes rhetorical, social-scientific, socio-rhetorical, ideological and hermeneutical methods, as they contribute to understanding First Peter and its social context. Each essay has a similar three-fold structure, ideal for use by students: a description of the methodological approach; the application of the methodological approach to First Peter; and a conclusion identifying how the methodological approach contributes to a fresh understanding of the letter.

Reading First Peter with New Eyes follows on from the first volume in the series, Reading James With New Eyes, edited by Robert, L. Webb and John S. Kloppenborg.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780567045621
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/05/2007
Series:	The Library of New Testament Studies , #364
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Robert L. Webb lectures in the Religious Studies Department of McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. He is the executive editor of the Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus (Sage) and of the monograph series Library of Historical Jesus Studies (a subset of LNTS, T&T Clark). He is the author of John the Baptizer and Prophet: A Socio-Historical Study (Sheffield Academic Press, 1991) and more recently the co-editor with Kathleen Corley of Jesus and Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ: The Film, the Gospels, and the Claims of History (Continuum, 2004) and with John Kloppenborg of Reading James with New Eyes: Methodological Reassessments of the Letter of James (T&T Clark, 2007).

Betsy Bauman-Martin is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at St. Norbert College, Wisconsin, USA.

Table of Contents

M. Eugene Boring - "Narrative Dynamics in First Peter: The Function of Narrative World"


Troy W. Martin - "The Rehabilitation of a Rhetorical Step-child: First Peter and Classical Rhetorical Criticism"

Robert L. Webb - "Intertexture and Rhetorical Strategy in First Peter's Apocalyptic Discourse: A Study in Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation"

David G. Horrell, Lecturer in New Testament, University of Exeter - "Between Conformity and Resistance: Beyond the Balch-Elliott Debate Towards a Post-Colonial Reading of 1 Peter "



Betsy Bauman-Martin - "Speaking Jewish: Postcolonial Aliens and Strangers in 1 Peter "



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