Reading First Peter with New Eyes

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). Betsy Bauman-Martin is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at St. Norbert College, Wisconsin, USA.

• M. Eugene Boring - "Narrative Dynamics in First Peter: The Function of Narrative World"Troy W. Martin - "The Rehabilitation of a Rhetorical Step-child: First Peter and Classical Rhetorical Criticism"Robert L. Webb - "Intertexture and Rhetorical Strategy in First Peter's Apocalyptic Discourse: A Study in Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation" David G. Horrell, Lecturer in New Testament, University of Exeter - "Between Conformity and Resistance: Beyond the Balch-Elliott Debate Towards a Post-Colonial Reading of 1 Peter "Betsy Bauman-Martin - "Speaking Jewish: Postcolonial Aliens and Strangers in 1 Peter "Bibliography Indexes

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