BECOMING CHRISTIAN

Essays on 1 Peter and the Making of Christian Identity

David G. Horrell

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EARLY CHRISTIANITY IN CONTEXT

Editor

John M. G. Barclay

Editorial Board

Loveday Alexander, Troels-Engberg-Pedersen, Bart Ehrman, Joel Marcus, John Riches, Matthias Konradt

Published under

LIBRARY OF NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES

394

Formerly the Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series

Editor

Mark Goodacre

Editorial Board

John M. G. Barclay, Craig Blomberg, R. Alan Culpepper, James D. G. Dunn, Craig A. Evans, Stephen Fowl, Robert Fowler, Simon J. Gathercole, John S. Kloppenborg, Michael Labahn, Robert Wall, Steve Walton, Robert L. Webb, Catrin H. Williams

Contents

Abbreviations and Primary Sources

Preface

Introduction

1. The Product of a Petrine Circle? Challenging an Emerging Consensus

1.1. Introduction: an emerging consensus

1.2. Pauline traditions in 1 Peter

1.3. Non-Pauline traditions in 1 Peter

1.4. From literary (in)dependence to intertextuality

1.5. A Petrine tradition from a Petrine circle?

1.6. The names in 1 Peter: Silvanus and Mark

1.7. First Peter as the product of an early Christian synthesis?

1.8. Why Peter?

1.9. Conclusions

2. The Themes of 1 Peter: Insights from the Earliest Manuscripts (the Crosby-Schøyen Codex ms 193 and the Bodmer Miscellaneous Codex containing P72)

2.1. Introduction

2.2. Crosby-Schøyen Codex ms 193

2.3. The Bodmer Miscellaneous Codex

2.4. The significance of C-S and BMC for the interpretation of 1 Peter

3. ‘Already Dead’ or ‘Since Died’? Who are ‘the Dead’ and When was the Gospel Preached to Them (1 Pet. 4.6)?

3.1. Introduction

3.2. Competing interpretations of 1 Pet. 4.6

3.3. Dalton’s interpretation of 4.6

3.4. Earliest Christian eschatology

3.5. Literary context

3.6. The grammar of 4.6

3.7. The wider context of New Testament theology

3.8. Post New Testament texts and the Wirkungsgeschichte ...