Reading Second Peter with New Eyes

Methodological Reassessments of the Letter of Second Peter
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-567-03363-5
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Buch, Englisch, Band 382, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 488 g

Reihe: The Library of New Testament Studies

The letters of James, 1 and 2 Peter, and Jude are among the most neglected letters of the NT. Thus, methodological advances in NT study tend to arise among the Gospels or Pauline letters. But these letters are beginning to receive increased attention in the scholarly community.

Reading Second Peter With New Eyes is the third of four volumes that incorporate research in this area. The essays collected here examine the impact of recent methodological developments in New Testament studies to Second Peter, including, for example, rhetorical, social-scientific, socio-rhetorical, ideological and hermeneutical methods, as they contribute to understanding this letter and its social context.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Webb, Robert L.

Watson, Duane F.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Neues Testament: Exegese, Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations
List of Contributors
1. Reading Second Peter with New Eyes: An Introduction, Duane F. Watson and Robert L. Webb
2. Second Peter's Use of Jude: Imitatio and the Sociology of Early Christianity, Gene L. Green
3. Comparing Two Related Methods: Rhetorical Criticism and Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation Applied to Second Peter, Duane F. Watson
4. Rhetography Rhetology of Apocalyptic Discourse in Second Peter, Terrance Callan
5. A Unified Field Picture of Second Peter 1.3-15: Making Rhetorical Sense Out of Individual Images, Dennis D. Sylva
6. Narrative Method and the Letter of Second Peter, Ruth Anne Reese
7.The Sociological Category of 'Collective Identity' and Its Implications for Understanding Second Peter, James C. Miller
Bibligoraphy
Index of References
Index of Authors

Über Autor(innen)

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).

|Duane F. Watson is Professor of New Testament Studies at Malone College in Canton, Ohio, USA.