Reading Second Peter with New Eyes

Robert L. Webb lectures in the Religious Studies Department of McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. 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 LNTS, T&T Clark). He is the author of John the Baptizer and Prophet: A Socio-Historical Study (Sheffield Academic Press, 1991) and more recently the co-editor with Kathleen Corley of Jesus and Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ: The Film, the Gospels, and the Claims of History (Continuum, 2004) and with John Kloppenborg of Reading James with New Eyes: Methodological Reassessments of the Letter of James (T&T Clark, 2007). Duane F. Watson is Professor of New Testament Studies at Malone College in Canton, Ohio, USA.

... the collection of essays provides an accessible entry point that contains informative, methodological summaries for those interested in 2 Peter studies.

• 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