Find a copy online
Find a copy in the library
Finding libraries that hold this item...
Details
Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
---|---|
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
David G Horrell |
ISBN: | 9780567661463 0567661466 9780567322029 0567322025 |
OCLC Number: | 927801082 |
Description: | XI, 298 Seiten : Karten. |
Contents: | Introduction Chapter 1: The Product of a Petrine Circle? A Reassessment of the Origin and Character of 1 Peter. Chapter 2: The Themes of 1 Peter: Insights from the Earliest Manuscripts Chapter 3: Who are 'the Dead' and When was the Gospel Preached to Them? The Interpretation of 1 Peter 4.6. Chapter 4: The socio-economic location of the addressees of 1 Peter. Chapter 5: The "Chosen Race" (1 Pet 2.9): Ethnic Identity and the Making of the tertium genus Chapter 6: The Label Christianos: 1 Pet 4.16 and the Formation of Christian Identity. Chapter 7: Between Conformity and Resistance: Beyond the Balch-Elliott Debate Towards a Postcolonial Reading of 1 Peter. Bibliography Indexes |
Series Title: | Early Christianity in context; Library of New Testament studies, 394. |
Responsibility: | David G. Horrell. |
Reviews
Editorial reviews
Publisher Synopsis
This is a rich and stimulating collection of studies. Taken together they help readers to think more deeply about issues of identity formation in early Christianity. -- Paul Foster, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh * The Expository Times * Read more...
User-contributed reviews
Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers.
Be the first.
Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers.
Be the first.


Tags
Add tags for "Becoming Christian : essays on 1 Peter and the making of Christian identity".
Be the first.