Reading Jude with New Eyes: Methodological Reassessments of the Letter of Jude (Library of New Testament Studies | LNTS)
Overview
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 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: 1) a description of the methodological approach; 2) the application of the methodological approach to the particular letter under consideration (the bulk of the essay); and 3) a conclusion identifying how the methodological approach contributes to a fresh understanding the letter.
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- Examine the impact of recent methodological advances in New Testament studies
- Presents a collection of essays perfect for students and scholars
- Includes an application of the methodological approach to Jude
Top Highlights
“but the normal sense of the word in the middle voice is ‘to get [a dispute] settled’” (Page 22)
“The question is how the term should be rendered here in Jude 22.” (Page 22)
“Rather than a vituperative rant, Jude is a carefully crafted text which aims to persuade its readers to adopt a particular stance toward a dangerous group of infiltrators as well as orient themselves within a particular theological view of the world.” (Page 6)
“These remind us that neither we as contemporary readers nor the author(s) of the ancient works we read wrote in a vacuum” (Page 2)
“the specific danger of an ill-defined external boundary which had allowed false teachers to infiltrate the fellowship” (Page 6)
- Title: Reading Jude With New Eyes: Methodological Reassessments of the Letter of Jude
- Authors: Robert L. Webb, Peter H. Davids
- Publisher: T&T Clark
- Print Publication Date: 2008
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Pages: 176
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible. N.T. Jude › Criticism, interpretation, etc
- ISBNs: 9780567033611, 0567033619
- Resource ID: LLS:RDNGJDNWYSMTHDL
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:44:52Z
Robert L. Webb lectures in the Religious Studies Department of McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. His is the coeditor of the Nag Hammadi Texts and the Bible: A Synopsis and Index. He is the executive editor of the Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus (Sage) and of the monograph series Library of Historical Jesus Studies (a subset of the Library of New Testament Studies).
Duane F. Watson is professor of New Testament theology at St. Stephen’s University, New Brunswick, Canada. He is the author of The Epistle of James in the New International Greek Testament Commentary series and The Letters of 2 Peter and Jude in the Pillar New Testament Commentary series.
