Becoming Christian : essays on 1 Peter and the making of Christian identity /

Horrell, David G.

Becoming Christian : essays on 1 Peter and the making of Christian identity / David G. Horrell. - London: : Bloomsbury;, c2013. - xi, 298 p. : 2 maps ; 24 cm. - Early Christianity in context ; 394 . - Library of New Testament studies ; 394 T & T Clark library of biblical studies . - Library of New Testament studies. Early Christianity in context. Library of New Testament studies ; 394. T & T Clark library of biblical studies. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-274) and indexes.

The product of a Petrine circle? Challenging an emerging consensus -- The themes of 1 Peter: insights from the earliest manuscripts (the Crosby-Shy̜en Codex ms 193 and the Bodmer Miscellaneous Codex containing P72) -- 'Already dead' or 'since died'? Who are 'the dead' and when was the Gospel preached to them (1 Pet. 4.6)? -- Aliens and strangers? The socio-economic location of the addressees of 1 Peter -- 'Race', 'nation', 'people': ethnoracial identity construction in 1 Pet. 2.9 -- The label [Christianz̤] (1 Pet. 4.16): suffering, conflict, and the making of Christian identity -- Between conformity and resistance: beyond the Balch-Elliott debate towards a Postcolonial reading of 1 Peter.

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Bible.--Peter, 1st--Criticism, interpretation, etc.


Christianity--Essence, genius, nature.
Identification (Religion)

BS2795.52 / .H672 2013

227.9206 Hor 2013