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Conflict, Community, and Honor: 1 Peter in Social-Scientific Perspective is unavailable, but you can change that!

Conflict, Community, and Honor consists of two studies which involve expansions on John H. Elliott’s first book on 1 Peter, The Elect and the Holy, putting that tradition-and-redaction analysis of 1 Peter 2:4–10 into a larger literary, social, and cultural framework. The first essay is an overview of the social situation and rhetorical strategy of 1 Peter. The second essay demonstrates how the...

been born anew to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead” (1 Pet 1:3). It is most appropriate, therefore, that it is 1 Peter to which the church listens in its liturgical celebration of the Sundays of the Easter season. First Peter is also important as the first of a large body of literature associated with the Apostle Peter in the early church (including 2 Peter, the Apocalypse of Peter, the Gospel of Peter, the Acts of Peter, the Passion of Peter, and the Clementine
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