Reading Second Peter with New Eyes: Methodological Reassessments of the Letter of Second Peter (The Library of New Testament Studies)

Robert L. Webb,Duane F. Watson

ISBN 10: 0567688364 / ISBN 13: 9780567688361

Published by T&T Clark 2019-04-18, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reading Second Peter with New Eyes: Methodological Reassessments of the Letter of Second Peter (The Library of New Testament Studies)
• Publisher: T&T Clark 2019-04-18
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0567688364
• ISBN 13: 9780567688361
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

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).

Chris Keith is Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway. He is the author of The Pericope Adulterae, the Gospel of John and the Literacy of Jesus, a winner of the 2010 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise, and Jesus' Literacy: Scribal Culture and the Teacher from Galilee. He is also the co-editor of Jesus among Friends and Enemies: A Historical and Literary Introduction to Jesus in the Gospels, and was recently named a 2012 Society of Biblical Literature Regional Scholar.

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