Catholic Epistles: Critical Readings

Darian R. Lockett is Associate Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies at Biola University, USA.

This volume of essays on the Catholic Epistles offers more than a collection of previously published essays, selected from the scholarship of recent decades. Four of the essays included here have been translated from German into English for the first time. Along with Darian Lockett’s judicious and wellinformed introductions, and annotated lists of further reading, this volume will provide a valuable resource for teaching and research on this still relatively neglected corner of the New Testament canon.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsI. Introduction1. Introduction to the Catholic Epistles – Darian R. Lockett, Biola University, USA2. Further ReadingsII. Historical-Critical and Theological studies in the Catholic Epistles1. Section Introduction -- Darian R. Lockett, Biola University, USAa. Compositional, exegetical, textual-critical, and background studies 2. The Fiction of James and Its Sitz im Leben’, Dale Allison, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA3. Messianic Jewish Identity in James – Richard Bauckham, St Andrew’s University, UK4. Q and James: A Source-Critical Conundrum – Paul Foster, University of Edinburgh, UK5. Hellenization/Acculturation in 1 Peter – David L. Balch, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, USA6. The Themes of 1 Peter: Insights from the Earliest Manuscripts (the Crossby-Schøyen Codex Ms 193 and the Bodmer Miscellaneous Codex Containing P72) – David G. Horrell, University of Exeter, UK7. The Form and Background of the Polemic in 2 Peter – J.H. Neyrey, University of Notre Dame, USA8. The Relationship of the Fourth Gospel Shared by the Author of 1 John and by His Opponents – Raymond E. Brown, deceased9. If Anyone Comes… Judith M. Lieu, University of Cambridge, UK10. What Was from the Beginning: Scripture and Tradition in the Johaninne Epistles -- Judith M. Lieu, University of Cambridge, UK11. Jude’s Citation of 1 Enoch: From Tertullian to Jacob of Edessa – Jeremy F. Hultin, Union Theological Seminary, USA12. Jude’s Exegesis -- Richard Bauckham, St Andrew’s University, UKb. Theological and Interpretive Issues 13. Letter of James as a Document of Paulinism? – Margaret M. Mitchell, University of Chicago, USA14. Narrating the gospel in 1 and 2 Peter – Joel B. Green, Fuller Theological Seminary, USA15. Authority to Become Children of God – Judith M. Lieu, University of Cambridge, UK16. Cosmology in the Petrine Literature and Jude – John Dennis, London School of Theology, UK17. Jude’s Christology -- Richard Bauckham, St Andrew’s University, UK18. Further ReadingsIII. Methodological Approaches 19. Section Introduction -- Darian R. Lockett, Biola University, USA20. An Assessment of the Rhetoric and Rhetorical Analysis of the Letter of James – Duane F. Watson, Malone University, USA21. “Unstained by the World”: Purity and Pollution as an Indicator of Cultural Interaction in the Epistle of James -- Darian R. Lockett, Biola University, USA22. Women on the Edge: New Perspectives on Women in the Petrine Haustafel – Betsy Bauman-Martin, St Norbert College, USA23. Disgraced Yet Graced: The Gospel of First Peter in the Key of Honor and Shame – John H. Elliott, University of Oxford, UK 24. Polemic and Persuasion: Typological and Rhetorical Perspectives in the Letter of Jude – J. Daryl Charles, Princeton University, USA25. Further ReadingsIV.Reception 26. Section Introduction -- Darian R. Lockett, Biola University, USA27. The Product of a Petrine Circle? Challenging an Emerging Consensus – David G. Horrell, University of Exeter, UK28. Acceptance into the Canon—Judith M. Lieu, University of Cambridge, UK29. The Epistle of Jude in the History of Heresiology – Frederik Wisse, McGill University, Canada30. Further ReadingsIndex