Katherine M. Hockey is the inaugural Kirby Laing Postdoctoral Fellow in New Testament Studies at the University of Aberdeen. She is co-editor of Muted Voices of the New Testament: Readings in the Catholic Epistles and Hebrew (2017) and Ethnicity, Race, Religion: Identities and Ideologies in Early Jewish and Christian Texts, and in Modern Biblical Interpretation (2018).

• Part I. Introductory Matters: 1. Emotion studies and the New Testament; 2. Emotion studies – theoretical foundations; Part II. Emotions in Antiquity: 3. Stoic philosophy of emotion; 4. The rhetorical use of emotion; Part III. The Present Experience: 5. Joy despite distress – 1 Peter 1.6-8; 6. Joy in suffering – 1 Peter 4.12-13; Part IV. Future Expectation: 7. Fearful hope; 8. Appropriate and inappropriate shame; 9. Conclusion; Appendix 1: chronology of the leading stoics.

'First Peter has received increasing scholarly attention in recent decades … Hockey extends this trend in an important new direction, focusing on 1 Peter's portrayal of emotion, a burgeoning focus of research across the sciences and humanities beginning to influence biblical studies.' F. Scott Spencer, Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology