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In Strangers to FamilyShively Smith reads the Letter of 1 Peter through a new model of diaspora. Smith illuminates this peculiarly Petrine understanding of diaspora by situating it among three other select perspectives from extant Hellenist Jewish writings: the Daniel court tales, the Letter of Aristeas, and Philo's works.While 1 Peter tends to be taken as representative of how diaspora was understood in Hellenistic Jewish and early Christian circles, Smith demonstrates that 1 Peter actually reverses the most fundamental meaning of diaspora as conceived by its literarypeers. Instead of connoting the scattering of a people with a common territorial origin,for 1 Peter, diaspora constitutes an ""already-scattered-people"" who share a common, communal, celestial destination.Smith's discovery of a distinctive instantiation of diaspora in 1 Peter capitalizes on her careful comparative historical, literary, and theological analysis of diaspora constructionsfound in Hellenistic Jewish writings. Her reading of 1 Peter thus challenges the use of the exile and wandering as master concepts to read 1 Peter, reconsiders the conceptual significance of diaspora in 1 Peter and in the entire New Testament canon, and liberates 1 Peter from being interpreted solely through the rubrics of either the stranger-homelessness model or household codes. First Peter does not recycle standard diasporic identity, but is, as Strangers to Familydemonstrates, an epistle that represents the earliest Christian construction of diaspora as a way of life.
Shively T. J. Smith is Assistant Professor of New Testament at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C.
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroductionPart 1. Diaspora through the Lens of 1 PeterChapter 1. Chosen Kinship: Imagining Christian DiasporaChapter 2. The Cultic Life: Practices of the Christian DiasporaChapter 3. Provinces and Households: The Relational Matrix of the Christian DiasporaPart 2. Diaspora the Way Others ImagineChapter 4. Diaspora Life in Babylon: The Court Tales of DanielChapter 5. Diaspora in Egypt: The Letter of AristeasChapter 6. Diaspora in Alexandria: PhiloConclusion: Liberating 1 Peter's Diaspora VisionBibliographyIndex
Overall, this book is extremely well-written, and filled with many valuable insights. Especially illuminating is the way that 1 Peter's vision of diaspora is set in contrast to that of other Second Temple authors, thereby emphasizing the letter's unique perspective. -- Travis B. Williams -- Expository Times