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Media studies is an emerging discipline that is quickly making an
impact within the wider field of biblical scholarship. This volume
is designed to evaluate the status quaestionis of the Dead Sea
Scrolls as products of an ancient media culture, with leading
scholars in the Dead Sea Scrolls and related disciplines reviewing
how scholarship has addressed issues of ancient media in the past,
assessing the use of media criticism in current research, and
outlining potential directions for future discussions.
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.
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.
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.
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