Corpus-Paul

[Edgar Krentz <ekrentz AT lstc.edu>]

At 6:10 PM -0500 6/12/01, Douglas Horst wrote:
> 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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> D. Horst
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Add now his recently published commentary on 1 Peter in the Anchor Bible.
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