The Catholic Epistles: Critical Readings

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Part 1 The Catholic Epistles as a Collection
	Introduction (Darian R. Lockett)
	The Wait is Worth it: The Catholic Epistles and the Formation of the New Testament
	Further Readings
Part 2 Historical-Critical and Theological Studies in the Catholic Epistles
	Introduction  (Darian R. Lockett)
a. Compositional, Exegetical, Textual-Critical, and Background Studies
	The Fiction of James and Its Sitz im Leben (Dale C. Allison Jr.)
	The Epistle of James in Light of Early Jewish Diaspora Letters (Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr)
	Messianic Jewish Identity in James (Richard J. Bauckham)
	The Themes of 1 Peter: Insights from the Earliest Manuscripts (the Crosby-Schøyen Codex Ms 193 and the Bodmer Miscellaneous Cod
	Aliens and Strangers? The Socio-economic Location of the Addresses of 1 Peter (David G. Horrell)
	The Form and Background of the Polemic in 2 Peter (Jerome H. Neyrey)
	The Relationship to the Fourth Gospel Shared by the Author of 1 John and by His Opponents (Raymond E. Brown)
	The Historicization of the Theology of John in the First Letter of John (Theo K. Heckel)
	What Was from the Beginning: Scripture and Tradition in the Johannine Epistles1 (Judith M. Lieu)
	“If Anyone Comes …” (Judith M. Lieu)
	Jude’s Citation of 1 Enoch (Jeremy Hultin)
	Jude’s Exegesis (Richard J. Bauckham)
b. Theological and Interpretive Issues
	The Epistle of James as Anti-Pauline Polemic: The Aporias of the Epistle (Martin Hengel)
	The Letter of James as a Document of Paulinism? (Margaret M. Mitchell)
	Narrating the Gospel in 1 and 2 Peter (Joel B. Green)
	“Authority to Become Children of God”: A Study of 1 John (Judith M. Lieu)
	Cosmology in the Petrine Literature and Jude ( John Dennis)
	Jude’s Christology
	Further Readings
Part 3 Methodological Approaches
	Introduction (Darian R. Lockett)
	An Assessment of the Rhetoric and Rhetorical Analysis of the Letter of James (Duane F. Watson)
	“Unstained by the World”: Purity and Pollution as an Indicator of Cultural Interaction in the Letter of James (Darian R. Locke
	1 Peter 4.16: Shame, Emotion, and Christian Self-Perception* (Katherine M. Hockey)
	Women on the Edge: New Perspectives on Women in the Petrine Haustafel (Betsy J. Bauman-Martin)
	Disgraced Yet Graced: The Gospel according to 1 Peter in the Key of Honor and Shame (John H. Elliott)
	Between Conformity and Resistance: Beyond the Balch–Elliott Debate Towards a Postcolonial Reading of First Peter* (David
	Polemic and Persuasion: Typological and Rhetorical Perspectives on the Letter of Jude (J. Daryl Charles)
	Further Readings
Part 4 Reception History of the Catholic Epistles
	Introduction  (Darian R. Lockett)
	The Product of a Petrine Circle? Challenging an Emerging Consensus (David G. Horrell)
	Acceptance into the Canon
	Searching for Evidence: The History of Reception of the Epistles of Jude and 2 Peter
	Further Readings
Index of authors
Index of References