Like the rest of the New Testament, the letter has been analyzed primarily through the historical-critical paradigm for several decades, but recently scholars have been applying other approaches, and some of them are sampled in the six studies here. They cover imitatio and the sociology of early Christianity, rhetorical criticism and socio-rhetorical interpretation, rhetography and rhetology of apocalyptic discourse in Second Peter, making rhetorical sense out of individual images in Second Peter 1.3-15, narrative method, and the sociological category of collective identity and its implications for understanding Second Peter. The essays are revised and expanded from presentations at a Consultation during the 2007 annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, and fill the fourth and final volume from that Consultation. T&T Clark is an imprint of Continuum. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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... the collection of essays provides an accessible entry point that contains informative, methodological summaries for those interested in 2 Peter studies. -- Journal for the Study of The New Testament, Volume 33 Number 5 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. -- Theological Book Review, Volume 23, No.2
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A collection of important research essays on one of the most neglected letters of the NT, taking into account the impact of recent methodological developments.
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| Abbreviations |
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| READING SECOND PETER WITH NEW EYES: AN INTRODUCTION |
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Duane F. Watson and Robert L. Webb |
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| 1 SECOND PETER'S USE OF DUDE: IMITATIO AND THE SOCIOLOGY OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY |
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| 2 COMPARING TWO RELATED METHODS: RHETORICAL CRITICISM AND SOCIO-RHETORICAL INTERPRETATION APPLIED TO SECOND PETER |
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| 3 RM3TOGRAPHY AND RHETOLOGY OF APOCALYPTIC DISCOURSE IN SECOND PETER |
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| 4 A UNIFIED FIELD PICTURE OF SECOND PETER 1.3-15: MAKING RHETORICAL SENSE OUT OF INDIVIDUAL IMAGES |
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| 5 NARRATIVE METHOD AND THE LETTER OF SECOND PETER |
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| 6 THE SOCIOLOGICAL CATEGORY OF `COLLECTIVE IDENTITY' AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR UNDERSTANDING SECOND PETER |
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| Bibliography |
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| Index of Ancient Texts |
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| Index of Authors |
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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.
