Becoming Christian : essays on 1 Peter and the making of Christian identity / [print]
Essays on 1 Peter and the making of Christian identity
David G. Horrell.
- paperback edition.
- London, England ; Bloomsbury, [(c)2015. New York, New York : Bloomsbury, [(c)2015.
- xi, 298 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
- Library of New Testament studies ; 394 9780567661463. T & T Clark library of biblical studies 9780567661463. .
- Library of New Testament studies ; 394. T & T Clark library of biblical studies. .
The product of a Petrine circle? Challenging an emberging consensus ; Introduction: an emerging consensus ; Pauline traditions in 1 Peter ; Non-Pauline traditions in 1 Peter ; From literary (in)dependence to interextuality ; A Petrine tradition from a Petrine circle? ; The names in 1 Peter: Silvanus and Mark ; First Peter as the product of an early Christian synthesis? ; Why Peter? ; Conclusions ; The themes of 1 Peter: Insights from the earliest manuscripts (the Crosby-Schouen Codex ms 193 and the Bodmer miscellaneous Codex containing P^72) ; Introduction ; Crosby-Schooyen Codex ms 193 The Bodmer miscellaneous codex ; The significance of C-S and BMC for the interpretation of 1 Peter ; 'Already Dead' or 'Since died'? Who are 'the dead' and when was the Gospel preached to them (1 Pet. 4.6)? ; Introduction ; Competing interpretations of 1 Pet. 4.6 Dalton's interpretation of 4.6 Earliest Christian eschatology ; Literary context ; The grammar of 4.6 The wider context of New Testament theology ; Post New Testament texts and the Wirkungsgeschichte of 1 Pet. 4.6 Conclusions ; Aliens and strangers? The socio-economic location of the addressees of 1 Peter ; Introduction ; The socio-economic structure of the Roman empire ; Roman imperialism and the development of Asia Minor ; The addressees of 1 Peter ; Conclusions ; 'Race', 'Nation', 'People': ethnoracial identity construction in 1 Pet. 2.9 Introduction ; First Peter 2.9 and the language of race in early Christian literature ; First 2.9 and the making of an ethnoracial form of Christian identity ; The Label (1 Pet. 4.6): suffering, conflict, and the making of Christian identity ; Introduction ; Th origins of the term ; Suffering: 1 Peter and the letters of Pliny ; conflict, and making of Christina identity ; Conclusion ; Between conformity and resistance: beyond the Balch-Elliottt debate towards a postcolonial reading of 1 Peter ; The Balch-Elliott debate and the reasons for a new methodology ; Resources from postcolonial studies ; Towards a postcolonial reading of 1 Peter ; Conclusion: polite resistance.
Becoming Christian examines various facets of the first letter of Peter, in its social and historical setting, in some cases using new social-scientific and postcolonial methods to shed light on the ways in which the letter contributes to the making of Christian identity. The heart of the book, chapters 5-7, examines the contribution of 1 Peter to the construction of Christian identity, the persecution and suffering of Christians in Asia Minor, the significance of the name 'Christian', and the response of the letter to the hostility encountered by Christians in society. There are no recent books which bring together such a wealth of information and analysis of this crucial early Christian text. Becoming Christian has developed out of Horrell's ongoing research for the International Critical Commentary on 1 Peter. Together these chapters offer a series of significant and original engagements with this letter, and a resource for studies of 1 Peter for some time to come. https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Christian-Identity-Library-Testament/dp/0567661466/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=9780567661463&qid=1599706489&s=books&sr=1-1
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Bible.--Peter, 1st--Criticism, interpretation, etc.