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Wisdom commentary
Wisdom commentary ; v. 56. ^A1280906
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Foreword: "Come eat of my bread . . . and walk in the ways of wisdom" / Elisabeth Sch̐uussler Fiorenza -- Editor's introduction to Wisdom commentary: "She is a breath of the power of God" (Wis 7:25) / Barbara E. Reid, OP -- Author's introduction to 1 Peter : Reading from the margins -- 1 Peter 1:1-12. Letter opening -- 1 Peter 1:13-2:10. Letter body 1: Outsiders are to become God's holy people -- 1 Peter 2:11-3:7. Letter body 2: Christ's example -- 1 Peter 3:8-4:11. Letter body 3: Love, service, and solidarity among the faithful -- 1 Peter 4:12-19. Coda: Joy in suffering with Christ -- 1 Peter 5:1-14. Closing -- Concluding reflection: Doing what is good in evil times -- Author's introduction to 2 Peter: An integrative critical method and feminist analysis -- 2 Peter 1:1-2. Greeting to the faithful, Simeon Peter as servant -- 2 Peter 1:3-11. God's generosity in summoning believers to knowledge of Jesus Christ -- 2 Peter 1:12-18. The apostolic witness authorizing the teaching : transfiguration -- 2 Peter 1:19. Morning star -- 2 Peter 1:20-2:2. The intrusion of false prophets and teachers disrupting the community -- 2 Peter 2:3. Judicial condemnation of false teachers like the prophet Hananiah -- 2 Peter 2:4-10a. The lessons of the past : angels, Noah, Sodom and Gomorrah -- 2 Peter 2:10b-22. God's sure punishment of evildoers -- 2 Peter 3:1-10. Assurance of the coming of the day of final judgment -- 2 Peter 3:11-17. Calling the faithful to holiness -- 2 Peter 3:18. Closing doxology: Knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ -- Afterword -- Author's introduction to Jude: Attending to a different voice -- Jude 1-2. Who I am and who you are -- Jude 3-4. A pastor's concern about a dangerous situation -- Jude 5-7. What is at stake for the community -- Jude 8-16. "These people" -- Jude 17-19. Do not lose sight of the bigger picture -- Jude 20-23. Daily living as God's beloved -- Jude 24-25. Conclusion of the letter -- Conclusion. |
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"This commentary on 1-2 Peter and Jude provides a feminist interpretation of Scripture in serious, scholarly engagement with the whole text, not only those texts that explicitly mention women. It addresses not only issues of gender but also those of power, authority, ethnicity, racism, and classism"-- Provided by publisher. |
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"Reading 1 Peter through the lens of feminist and diaspora studies keeps front and center the bodily, psychological, and social suffering experienced by those without stable support of family or homeland, whether they were economic migrants or descendants of those enslaved by Roman armies. In the new "household" of God, believers are encouraged to exhibit a moral superiority to the society that engulfs them. But adoption of "elite" values cannot erase the undertones of randomized verbal abuse, general scorn, and physical violence that women, immigrants, slaves, and freedmen faced as the "facts of life." First Peter offers the "honor" of identifying with the Crucified, "by his bruises you are healed" (2:24). A Christian liberation ethic would challenge 1 Peter's approach. Pliny the Younger, governor of Bithynia-Pontus in north-western Asia Minor, is a contemporary of 2 Peter's writer. The polemical, accusatory genre of 2 Peter, like Jude, originates in Roman judicial rhetoric. The pastor, in the persona of a prosecuting attorney, condemns immoral defendants, including influential women. Their "crimes" encode community tensions over women's leadership, Gentile-members' sexual ethics, their syncretistic deviations from Jewish doctrine on creation, and the certainty of divine judgment and punishment. Citations to Elizabeth Cady Stanton's A Woman's Bible enliven the commentary. The doctrinal disorder prompts the male pastor to sustain loyalists in their commitment to "Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ." Second Peter dramatizes an ecclesial crisis whose "solution" was the eventual imposition of a magisterium to silence dissent. Brief, combative, and assuming a familiarity with a literary culture that most twenty-first-century readers do not have, the Letter of Jude would be an obvious candidate for being the most neglected book of the New Testament. As a model for a pastoral strategy, it can be recommended only with great reservations: almost everyone will find in it something problematic, if not offensive. Yet, in addition to giving a window on a Greek-speaking Jewish-Christian milieu, Jude's energetic prose testifies to the author's visceral concern for those attempting to live by the gospel in difficult circumstances. Furthermore, to the extent that over familiarity with parts of the New Testament can blunt their challenge, this letter provides a salutary reminder that the entire canon originated in a world that is radically unfamiliar to us"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | "A Michael Glazier Book." |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-303) and indexes. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: McDonald, Patricia, 1946- 1-2 peter and jude Collegeville : Liturgical Press, 2022 9780814682319 |
| Genre/form | Commentaries. |
| LCCN | 2021043298 |
| ISBN | 9780814682067 |
| ISBN | 0814682065 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
| ISBN | electronic book |
