Reading Jude With New Eyes: Methodological Reassessments of the Letter of Jude

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

Reading Jude With New Eyes is the fourth 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 Jude, including, for example, rhetorical, social-scientific, socio-rhetorical, ideological and hermeneutical methods, as they contribute to understanding this letter and its social context. Each essay will have a similar three-fold structure: a description of the methodological approach; the application of the methodological approach to the particular letter under consideration (the bulk of the essay); and a conclusion identifying how the methodological approach contributes to a fresh understanding the letter.

• Table of contents
• Introduction Peter H. Davids and Robert L. Webb
• 1. Purity and Polemic: A Reassessment of Jude's Theological World - Darian Lockett
• 2. Bourdieu Reads Jude: Reconsidering the Letter of Jude through Pierre Boudieu's Sociology - Jeremy F. Hultin
• 3. Postcolonial Pollution in the Letter of Jude - Betsy J. Bauman-Martin
• 4. Polemic and Persuasion: Typological and Rhetorical Perspectives on the Letter of Jude - J. Daryl Charles
• 5. The Rhetorical Function of Visual Imagery in Jude: A Socio-Rhetorical Experiment in Rhetography - Robert L. Webb
• Bibliography
• Indexes