The first volume in Travis B. Williams' and David G. Horrell's magisterial ICC commentary on first Peter.
Williams and Horrell bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis - linguistic, textual, archaeological, historical, literary, and theological - to help the reader understand the letter. This first volume presents introductory maps, and a comprehensive introduction covering aspects such as genre, canonicity, early citations of the letter, and its theology and influence. A particular feature of the introduction is that each section is preceded by an initial bibliography. The exegesis also provides for each passage sections on bibliography, text-criticism, literary introduction, detailed exegesis, and overall summary.
Following the introduction volume 1 provides commentary up to 2.10, the conclusion of the first major section of the letter.
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'ICC has been the supreme English language Bible commentary series throughout the twentieth century, and the recent additions to it...maintain its reputation as the commentary of choice, the first volume to be pulled from the shelf when a really tricky issue of exegesis or exposition is involved or an authoritative survey of historical and recent scholarly interpretation is sought on any particular passage.'--Professor James Dunn, University of Durham
Mention -New Testament Abstracts, Vol. 53 No. 1, 2009
Mention --New Testament Abstracts, Vol. 53 No. 1, 2009
Mention New Testament Abstracts, Vol. 53 No. 1, 2009
"David Horrell is a leading expert on 1 Peter and we are very fortunate to have his contribution to this quality series of introductory guides...'s well-received Introduction to the Study of Paul (now in its second edition), will not be disappointed by the present volume, which continues to evince Horrell's knack for summarizing a point of discussion while in the same breath contributing materially to it." Journal for the Study of the New Testament Booklist 2009--, "Journal for the Study of the New Testament "
'This study offers a competent and instructive overview of recent research on 1 Peter, continuing issues of debate, and new interpretive interests beyond the approach of social-scientific criticism. Generally seeking a middle ground between contending theories, Horrell's approach can lead to some curious if not untenable preferences such as viewing 1 Peter as urging 'polite resistance' to hostile outsiders. The question is not the politeness or incivility of the resistance required, but rather on what issues agreement with society's values is possible and where discipleship of Jesus calls for uncompromising non-conformity. On another front, the utility of post-colonial criticism is less than Horrell suggests if it is not Roman colonialism but local social hostility with which Christian resident aliens were contending. On the whole, Horrell's grasp of the subject matter and his skill at succinctly summarizing complex problems and fairly assessing divergent views makes this a volume ideally designed for the general reader, as well as for the classroom and preacher's study.' - John H. Elliott, University of San Francisco, CA, USA in the Expository Times
