Travis B. Williams – författare

The first volume in Travis B. Williams’ and David G. Horrell’s magisterial ICC commentary on first Peter.Williams and Horrell bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis - linguistic, textual, archaeological, historical, literary, and theological - to help the reader understand the letter. This first volume presents introductory maps, and a comprehensive introduction covering aspects such as genre, canonicity, early citations of the letter, and its theology and influence. A particular feature of the introduction is that each section is preceded by an initial bibliography. The exegesis also provides for each passage sections on bibliography, text-criticism, literary introduction, detailed exegesis, and overall summary.Following the introduction volume 1 provides commentary up to 2.10, the conclusion of the first major section of the letter.

The second volume in Travis B. Williams’ and David G. Horrell’s magisterial ICC commentary on first Peter.Williams and Horrell bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis - linguistic, textual, archaeological, historical, literary, and theological - to help the reader understand the letter. This second covers the major part of the letter, providing commentary on 2.11 to the end of the letter. The exegesis provides for each passage sections on bibliography, text-criticism, literary introduction, detailed exegesis, and overall summary.The volume concludes with a comprehensive bibliography, which covers the whole epistle.

The nature and reliability of the ancient sources are among the most important issues in the scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls. It is noteworthy, therefore, that scholars have grown increasingly skeptical about the value of these materials for reconstructing the life of the Teacher of Righteousness. Travis B. Williams' study is designed to address this new perspective and its implications for historical inquiry. He offers an important corrective to popular conceptions of history and memory by introducing memory theory as a means of informing historical investigation. Charting a new methodological course in Dead Sea Scrolls research, Williams reveals that properly representing the past requires an explanation of how the mnemonic evidence found in the relevant sources could have developed from a historical progression that began with the Teacher. His book represents the first attempt in Dead Sea Scrolls scholarship to integrate history and memory in a comprehensive way.

Unter Bezugnahme auf aktuelle Erkenntnisse aus dem Postkolonialismus und der Sozialpsychologie versucht Travis B. Williams, die soziale Strategie guter Werke im 1. Petrusbrief zu bestimmen, indem er untersucht, wie die fortwährende Ermahnung "Gutes zu tun" als angemessene Antwort auf soziale Konflikte dienen soll. Der Autor stellt den modernen Konsens infrage, welcher diese Rede von guten Werken im Brief als einen Versuch sieht, der griechisch-römischen Gesellschaft gefällig zu sein und damit die Feindseligkeit zu verringern und zeigt, dass die Ermunterung "Gutes zu tun" ein Verhaltensmuster vorsieht, welches populären Werten entgegensteht. Der Verfasser des Petrusbriefs verwendet eine Terminologie, die normalerweise mit Reichtum und sozialen Privilegien assoziiert wurde und gibt ihr eine neue Bedeutung, um seiner Leserschaft einen alternativen Blick auf die Realität zu gewähren; eine Realität, in der die in der Gesellschaft so geschätzte Ehre und Anerkennung endlich auch für sie erreichbar ist. Das Motiv der guten Werke bringt einen konkurrierenden Diskurs zum Ausdruck, der die herrschenden sozialen Strukturen und die ihnen zugrunde liegende vorherrschende Ideologie infrage stellt.

In Persecution in 1 Peter, Travis B. Williams offers a comprehensive and detailed socio-historical investigation into the nature of suffering in 1 Peter. While interpreters commonly portray the conflict situation addressed by the epistle as "unofficial" persecution consisting of discrimination and verbal abuse, Williams demonstrates the inadequacy of this modern consensus by situating the letter against the backdrop of conflict management in first-century CE Asia Minor. Drawing on a wide range of historical evidence and on modern social-psychological perspectives, this work reconstructs the conflict situation of the Anatolian audience and offers important insights regarding the legal culpability of Christians following the Neronian persecution, the roles of local and provincial authorities in the judicial process, and the variegated conflict experiences of different socio-economic groups within the Christian communities.