<p>Hardcover with dust jacket. VG/G. Dust jacket is faded and edge chipped at spine. Else good.</p>

2 Peter, Jude: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary

Religion & Spirituality

Neyrey, Jerome

Christian Books & Bibles

Anchor Bible

Jerome H. Neyrey gives us a thoroughly up to date and comprehensive study of two of the most obscure books of the New Testament. Written after the death of Jesus and his Apostles, the Epistles of 2 Peter and Jude offer a glimpse into the turbulent life of the early Christian communities. Neyrey’s fascinating study not only provides an entirely new translation of the two texts, but also stirring commentary that takes the reader inside groups located at the very edges of Christianity, in contact with the wider Roman world and Greek culture of the day.Neyrey builds upon the excellent scholarship of the past, and introduces into the discussion factors that were rarely understood or considered in earlier times: the social, political, and economic setting in which the New Testament Epistles were written and read—the church as a community within the larger context of the vast Roman Empire of the late first and early second centuries. And while these letters are often considered peripheral or marginal to the New Testament, they nevertheless reveal and interpret one of the murkier eras in the life of the church. They reflect the hard times and difficult circumstances of the faithful, beset by treacherous comrades within and malevolent enemies without. But all the while, these documents express the constancy and commitment of those who found salvation and the renewal of life in the one Lord, Jesus Christ.

2 Peter, Jude: A New Translation

The Passion According to Luke: A Redaction Study of Luke's Soteriology (Theological Inquiries)

Paulist Pr

<p>Recipients of Revelation listened to it, and heard it like other oral performances. Greek recipients knew not only Greek, but conventional ways of rhetorical presentation typical of Greek culture. They knew how works began (with a proemium, but with focus on speaker's ethos). Ethos of speaker was the first proof of persuading, and so audiences knew what one sounded like. They heard Revelation 1 as a continuous presentation, not like scholars pausing to examine each tile in the mosaic. The Speaker of Revelation 1-3 is Jesus – not John, who delivers God's revelation to the seven churches. After presenting himself in an impressive bodily manner, called an ecphrasis, he addresses seven individual letters. He repeats appropriate aspects of his ethos in his address of each letter. The letter type is solely that of praise and blame. Because this type is opaque to modern readers, the monograph presents examples of letters of praise and of blame. Greek hearers, moreover, valued more than anything praise, honor and respect, and so these cultural values are presented in some detail. Finally, each of the seven letters is then examined in the light of praise and blame, which in this context means in terms of common understanding of the cardinal virtues: prudence, justice, courage, and temperance. The two dominant virtues turn out to be justice and courage. Since most commentators on Revelation consider the cities from the eyes of elite writers of antiquity, the mean character of urban life needs be brought into focus. Only then can the virtues of the non-elites be identified and given proper praise or blame. Whatever else goes on in Revelation, the first three chapters are thoroughly Greek in composition, structure, and values.</p>

Hearing Revelation 1-3: Listening with Greek Rhetoric and Culture (Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph)

Catholic Biblical Association

Calling Jesus Names is about several things.  While it focuses on Christology, it treats only one document, the gospel of Matthew.  It specifically examines the negative and positive assessments of Jesus in conflictual situations.  In regard to these Christological conflicts, we will interpret them from the viewpoint of the social sciences.  We focus, then, on interpreting from a social science perspective the conflict over the correct evaluation of Jesus in the gospel of Matthew.

Calling Jesus Names: The Social Value of Labels in Matthew (FOUNDATIONS AND FACETS SOCIAL FACETS)

Malina, Bruce J.

Polebridge Pr Westar Inst