Reading Second Peter with New Eyes: Methodological Reassessments of the Letter of Second Peter

The letters of James, 1 and 2 Peter, and Jude are among the most neglected letters of the NT. Thus, methodological advances in NT study tend to arise among the Gospels or Pauline letters. But these letters are beginning to receive increased attention in the scholarly community. 

Reading Second Peter With New Eyes is the third of four volumes that incorporate research in this area. The essays collected here examine the impact of recent methodological developments in New Testament studies to Second Peter, including, for example, rhetorical, social-scientific, socio-rhetorical, ideological and hermeneutical methods, as they contribute to understanding this letter and its social context.

• Table of contents
• Abbreviations
• List of Contributors
• 1. Reading Second Peter with New Eyes: An Introduction, Duane F. Watson and Robert L. Webb
• 2. Second Peter's Use of Jude: Imitatio and the Sociology of Early Christianity, Gene L. Green
• 3. Comparing Two Related Methods: Rhetorical Criticism and Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation Applied to Second Peter, Duane F. Watson
• 4. Rhetography Rhetology of Apocalyptic Discourse in Second Peter, Terrance Callan
• 5. A Unified Field Picture of Second Peter 1.3-15: Making Rhetorical Sense Out of Individual Images, Dennis D. Sylva
• 6. Narrative Method and the Letter of Second Peter, Ruth Anne Reese
• 7.The Sociological Category of 'Collective Identity' and Its Implications for Understanding Second Peter, James C. Miller
• Bibligoraphy
• Index of References
• Index of Authors