1 Peter
in Two Horizons New Testament Commentary
Pages
331
Publisher
Eerdmans
Published
1/1/2007
ISBN-13
9780802825537
Collections
This book appears in the following featured collections.
- The Pastor’s Bookshelf by Scot McKnight
- New Testament Commentaries & Monographs by Princeton Theological Seminary
- Nijay Gupta's Top NT Commentaries by Nijay K. Gupta
Reviews
Review of Biblical Literature (RBL) (Paul J. Achtemeier)
September 1, 2008
September 1, 2008
This is an important book, not principally for its commentary on 1 Peter, although the commentary itself is a highly competent piece of work that will prove helpful to anyone who consults it. Rather, it is significant for its way of integrating an understanding obtained by a study of 1 Peter into an understanding of the relation of Christian Scripture, Old and New Testaments, and into the Christian theological enterprise. As such, it is a parade example of the stated intention of the commentary series of which it is a part. The book is divided into two major parts, a commentary in the usual sense—in this case paragraph by paragraph rather than verse by verse—and Theological Horizons, in which the theology of 1 Peter derived from the studies represented by the commentary is examined from several perspectives. A brief introduction to the letter as first-century literature set within the Roman Empire begins the volume, and it concludes with an extensive bibliography and several indices. Introductory matters (“Orientation”) are dealt with succinctly.
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