Corpus-Paul

[Douglas Horst <dchorst AT mediaone.net>]

At 12:18 PM 6/12/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> Ntsearcher AT aol.com wrote:
>
> >
> > I'm presently doing some study on why Peter would be writing to those 
> in this
> > area... again "Paul's turf" as it were.
> >
>
> You say you are doing some study -- but what sources are you consulting?
>
> Yours,
>
> Jeffrey Gibson
Elliott, John H., _A Home for the Homeless: A Sociological Exegesis of 1 
Peter, Its Situation and Strategy_,  Fortress, 1981, Was one of the earlier 
attempts to do a socio/rhetorical analysis on one of the general 
epistles.  It was an eye opening read for me as I started my graduate 
career after about a decade of non-academic work.

He argues basically that the attribution of the epistle to Peter is to 
signify that its "authority" (perhaps too loaded a term) derived from the 
Roman Christian community rather than the more narrow Pauline 
communities.  In any case you might find it a very interesting projection 
of the situation of a proposed audience to this epistle.

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