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1–2 Peter and Jude (Volume 56) (Wisdom Commentary Series) Hardcover – July 2, 2022

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2023 Catholic Media Association Second Place Award, Scripture – Academic Studies

Reading 1 Peter through the lens of feminist and diaspora studies keeps front and center the bodily, psychological, and social suffering experienced by those without stable support of family or homeland, whether they were economic migrants or descendants of those enslaved by Roman armies. In the new “household” of God, believers are encouraged to exhibit a moral superiority to the society that engulfs them. But adoption of “elite” values cannot erase the undertones of randomized verbal abuse, general scorn, and physical violence that women, immigrants, slaves, and freedmen faced as the “facts of life.”  First Peter offers the “honor” of identifying with the Crucified, “by his bruises you are healed” (2:24).  A Christian liberation ethic would challenge 1 Peter’s approach.

Pliny the Younger, governor of Bithynia-Pontus in north-western Asia Minor, is a contemporary of 2 Peter’s writer. The polemical, accusatory genre of 2 Peter, like Jude, originates in Roman judicial rhetoric. The pastor, in the persona of a prosecuting attorney, condemns immoral defendants, including influential women. Their “crimes” encode community tensions over women’s leadership, Gentile-members’ sexual ethics, their syncretistic deviations from Jewish doctrine on creation, and the certainty of divine judgment and punishment. Citations to Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s A Woman’s Bible enliven the commentary. The doctrinal disorder prompts the male pastor to sustain loyalists in their commitment to “Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” Second Peter dramatizes an ecclesial crisis whose “solution” was the eventual imposition of a magisterium to silence dissent.

Brief, combative, and assuming a familiarity with a literary culture that most twenty-first-century readers do not have, the Letter of Jude would be an obvious candidate for being the most neglected book of the New Testament. As a model for a pastoral strategy, it can be recommended only with great reservations: almost everyone will find in it something problematic, if not offensive. Yet, in addition to giving a window on a Greek-speaking Jewish-Christian milieu, Jude’s energetic prose testifies to the author’s visceral concern for those attempting to live by the gospel in difficult circumstances. Furthermore, to the extent that over familiarity with parts of the New Testament can blunt their challenge, this letter provides a salutary reminder that the entire canon originated in a world that is radically unfamiliar to us.

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    0814682065
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Editorial Reviews

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“This reading from the margins makes a volume on some of the less read biblical texts into another good feminist window on the whole enterprise.”
WATER
 

"This commentary is a welcomed addition to the studies of 1-2 Peter and Jude and will find a ready audience among pastors and ministry students."
The Bible Today

"This is an intelligent, thoughtful, well-written feminist interpretive work."
Catholic Books Review

 

"This volume, and all the volumes in the series, belong in the library of every Catholic college and university, and professors of theology should encourage students to make use of the erudition and insight to be found in each of the volumes."
Horizons Published On: 2023-07-20

"While promising a reading from the margins, this volume is also attentive to mainstream historical critical methodology. Well-cited."
Catholic Media Association
  Published On: 2023-07-20

"Each of the three commentaries is well written, informed by scholarly conversation, and also accessible to a broad readership. A valuable contribution to our reading and wrestling with these ancient documents."
Journal for the Study of the New Testament Published On: 2023-12-13

"The voices one hears in this volume are unique, and engagement with them has the potential to deepen our understanding of these biblical books."
Interpretation Published On: 2024-04-17

About the Author

Pheme Perkins, the Joseph Professor of Catholic Spirituality at Boston College, is the author of over twenty-five books on the New Testament and early Christianity. She was the first woman president of the Catholic Biblical Association and served as chair of its executive board. Additionally, Perkins has served on many editorial boards and is an associate editor of the New Oxford Annotated Bible.

Patricia McDonald, a member of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, is currently academic program director and teacher of New Testament at the Pontifical Beda College, Rome, where she has been since 2012. She has degrees from Cambridge and London Universities, the Pontifical Biblical Institute, and the Catholic University of America. She has taught at Mount St Mary’s College (now University), Emmitsburg, Maryland, and at Ushaw College, Durham, England.

Eloise Rosenblatt is a Sister of Mercy, a theologian, and an attorney in private practice in family law in California. She holds an MA in comparative literature from the University of Southern California and a PhD from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. She was the first US woman admitted to the graduate program at the École Biblique et Archaéologique Française in Jerusalem, Israel in 1981.

Barbara E. Reid, general editor of the Wisdom Commentary series, is a Dominican Sister of Grand Rapids, Michigan. She is the president of Catholic Theological Union and the first woman to hold the position. She has been a member of the CTU faculty since 1988 and also served as vice president and academic dean from 2009 to 2018. She holds a PhD in biblical studies from The Catholic University of America and was also president of the Catholic Biblical Association in 2014–2015.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Liturgical Press; Annotated edition (July 2, 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 360 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0814682065
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0814682067
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.4 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.25 x 9 inches

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