The first volume in Travis B. Williams' and David G. Horrell's magisterial ICC commentary on first Peter. Williams and Horrell bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis - linguistic, textual, archaeological, historical, literary, and theological - to help the reader understand the letter. This first volume presents introductory maps, and a comprehensive introduction covering aspects such as genre, canonicity, early citations of the letter, and its theology and influence. A particular feature of the introduction is that each section is preceded by an initial bibliography. The exegesis also provides for each passage sections on bibliography, text-criticism, literary introduction, detailed exegesis, and overall summary. Following the introduction volume 1 provides commentary up to 2.10, the conclusion of the first major section of the letter.
The first volume in Travis B. Williams' and David G. Horrell's magisterial ICC commentary on first Peter. Williams and Horrell bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis - linguistic, textual, archaeological, historical, literary, and theological - to help the reader understand the letter. This first volume presents introductory maps, and a comprehensive introduction covering aspects such as genre, canonicity, early citations of the letter, and its theology and influence. A particular feature of the introduction is that each section is preceded by an initial bibliography. The exegesis also provides for each passage sections on bibliography, text-criticism, literary introduction, detailed exegesis, and overall summary. Following the introduction volume 1 provides commentary up to 2.10, the conclusion of the first major section of the letter.
General Editors’ Preface
Preface
Maps
Abbreviations
Introduction
Excursus: Pseudonymity in Early Christianity and 1 Peter
Inscripto/Subscripto
Epistolary Prescript: Identification of Author/Addressees and
Opening Greetings (1.1–2)
Excursus: Imperatival Participles in 1 Peter
An Exhortation to Crave Spiritual Food for Growth (2.1-3)
Excursus: The Quotation of ‘Stone’ Texts (LXX Isa 8.14; 28.16; Ps
117.22)
Excursus: ‘Doing Good’ and the Strategy of 1 Peter
Volume 1 of the ICC commentary on 1 Peter, demonstrating the letter's contribution to early Christianity's development.
Travis B. Williams is Professor of Religion at
Tusculum University, USA. He has published extensively on the
letter of 1 Peter, including numerous articles and essays as well
as two major monographs: Good Works in 1 Peter: Negotiating Social
Conflict and Christian Identity in the Greco-Roman World (2014) and
Persecution in 1 Peter: Differentiating and Contextualizing Early
Christian Suffering (2012).
David G. Horrell is Professor of New Testament Studies at
the University of Exeter, UK. He is the author of several books,
including Becoming Christian: Essays on 1 Peter and the Making of
Christian Identity (T&T Clark, 2013), 1 Peter (New Testament
Guides; T&T Clark, 2008), and Solidarity and Difference
(T&T Clark, 2005, second edn 2016). He was the editor of the
Journal for the Study of the New Testament from 2002-2007.
No student of First Peter should be without it, and any biblical
scholar would benefit from imitating its methodological
thoughtfulness, careful philological analysis, broad historical
contextualization, and sensitivity to profound and pressing
questions of significance.
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scholarly study in 1 Peter for years to come. Every library of
theological higher education should procure it for students’ and
faculties’ use. New Testament scholars, as able, should also
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pastors should avail themselves of this resource for the way its
authors mine the original meaning of 1 Peter.
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