Becoming Christian : Essays on 1 Peter and the Making of Christian Identity (Paperback)

Introduction Chapter 1: The Product of a Petrine Circle? A Reassessment of the Origin and Character of 1 Peter. Chapter 2: The Themes of 1 Peter: Insights from the Earliest Manuscripts Chapter 3: Who are 'the Dead' and When was the Gospel Preached to Them? The Interpretation of 1 Peter 4.6. Chapter 4: The socio-economic location of the addressees of 1 Peter. Chapter 5: The "Chosen Race" (1 Pet 2.9): Ethnic Identity and the Making of the tertium genus Chapter 6: The Label Christianos: 1 Pet 4.16 and the Formation of Christian Identity. Chapter 7: Between Conformity and Resistance: Beyond the Balch-Elliott Debate Towards a Postcolonial Reading of 1 Peter. Bibliography Indexes