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Strangers to Family : Diaspora and 1 Peter's Invention of God's Household /

In Strangers to Family Shively Smith reads the Letter of 1 Peter through a new model of diaspora. Smith illuminates this peculiarly Petrine understanding of diaspora by situating it among three other select perspectives from extant Hellenist Jewish writings: the Daniel court tales, the Letter of Ari...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Smith, Shively T. J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Diaspora through the lens of 1 Peter. Chosen kinship : imagining Christian diaspora
  • The cultic life : practices of the Christian diaspora
  • Provinces and households : the relational matrix of the Christian diaspora
  • Part II. Diaspora the way others imagine. Diaspora life in Babylon : the court tales of Daniel
  • Diaspora in Egypt : the letter of Aristeas
  • Diaspora in Alexandria : Philo
  • Conclusion: Liberating 1 Peter's diapora vision.