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1 Peter: An Introduction and Study Guide: Reading against the Grain
Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
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Description for 1 Peter: An Introduction and Study Guide: Reading against the Grain
Paperback. Series: T&T Clark's Study Guides to the New Testament. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: HRCF2; HRCG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 192.
The New Testament writing known as First Peter was probably written at the end of the 1st century CE; it is addressed to `resident aliens' who live as colonial subjects in the Roman Province of Asia Minor. They are portrayed as a marginalized group who experience harassment and suffering. This letter is ascribed to the apostle Peter but was probably not written by him. It is a rhetorical communication sent from Christians in the imperial centre in Rome (camouflaged as Babylon), an authoritative letter of advice and admonition to good conduct and subordination in the sphere of colonial provincial life. ... Read more
The New Testament writing known as First Peter was probably written at the end of the 1st century CE; it is addressed to `resident aliens' who live as colonial subjects in the Roman Province of Asia Minor. They are portrayed as a marginalized group who experience harassment and suffering. This letter is ascribed to the apostle Peter but was probably not written by him. It is a rhetorical communication sent from Christians in the imperial centre in Rome (camouflaged as Babylon), an authoritative letter of advice and admonition to good conduct and subordination in the sphere of colonial provincial life. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
T&T Clark's Study Guides to the New Testament
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781350008915
SKU
V9781350008915
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About Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza is the Krister Stendahl Professor at Harvard University Divinity School, USA.
Reviews for 1 Peter: An Introduction and Study Guide: Reading against the Grain
[Schussler Fiorenza] is to be commended for her interaction with a wide array of scholarship, for asking difficult questions of the text without leaving readers comfortless, for her insistence on identifying (and assistance in evaluating) readers' own frameworks of interpretation, and for presenting 1 Peter as a text ripe for the exercise of inquiry, biblical interpretation, and critical but constructive ... Read more