1 Peter: Reading against the Grain (T&T Clark Study Guides to the New Testament)

by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza

Publisher:

Bloomsbury

, 2017

Overview

The New Testament writing known as First Peter was probably written at the end of the 1st century CE; it is addressed to ‘resident aliens’ who live as colonial subjects in the Roman Province of Asia Minor. They are portrayed as a marginalized group who experience harassment and suffering. This letter is ascribed to the apostle Peter but was probably not written by him. It is a rhetorical communication sent from Christians in the imperial center in Rome (camouflaged as Babylon), an authoritative letter of advice and admonition to good conduct and subordination in the sphere of colonial provincial life.

1 Peter is a religious document written a long time ago and in a culture and world that is quite different from our own. However, as a biblical book it is a part of Christianity’s sacred Scriptures. This guide to the letter keeps both of these areas, the cultural-social and the ethical-religious, in mind. It offers help for understanding the letter as both a document of the 1st century and as sacred Scripture that speaks about the religious forces that have shaped Christianity and Western culture. In short, this guide seeks to enable readers to read ‘against the grain’.

Key Features

• Presents concise commentary on the text while inviting the reader to explore further
• Explores a variety of historical, textual, and theological issues
• Guides readers through a number of interpretive options

Product Details

• Title: 1 Peter: An Introduction and Study Guide: Reading against the Grain
• Author: Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
• Series: T&T Clark Study Guides to the New Testament
• Volume: 18
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Print Publication Date: 2017
• Logos Release Date: 2019
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. N.T. 1 Peter › Criticism, interpretation, etc
• ISBNs: 9781350008915, 9781350008939, 9781350008922, 1350008915, 1350008931, 1350008923
• Resource ID: LLS:TTCSGNT81PE1
• Resource Type: text.monograph.study-guide
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-17T23:46:00Z

About Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza

Krister Stendahl Professor of Divinity, she has done pioneering work in biblical interpretation and feminist theology. Her teaching and research focus on questions of biblical and theological epistemology, hermeneutics, rhetoric, and the politics of interpretation, as well as on issues of theological education, radical equality, and democracy. She is a co-founder and co-editor of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion and has been a founding co-editor of the feminist issues of Concilium. She was elected the first woman president of the Society of Biblical Literature and has served on the editorial boards of major biblical journals and societies. In 2001, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her published work includes In Memory of Her (translated into 14 languages); Bread Not Stone; But She Said; Discipleship of Equals; Revelation: Vision of a Just World; The Power of Naming; Jesus: Miriam’s Child; Sharing Her Word; Jesus and the Politics of Interpretation; Wisdom Ways: Introducing Feminist Biblical Interpretation; Grenzen Berschreiten: Der theoretische Anspruch feministischer Theologie; and The Power of the Word: Scripture and the Rhetoric of Empire. Her most recent book, Democratizing Biblical Studies Toward an Emancipatory Educational Space, will be published by Westminster John Knox Press.