The Catholic Epistles: Critical Readings

Darian R. Lockett is Associate Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies at Biola University, USA.

Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
I. Introduction
1. Introduction to the Catholic Epistles – Darian R. Lockett, Biola University, USA
2. Further Readings
II. Historical-Critical and Theological studies in the Catholic Epistles
1. Section Introduction -- Darian R. Lockett, Biola University, USA
a. Compositional, exegetical, textual-critical, and background studies
2. The Fiction of James and Its Sitz im Leben’, Dale Allison, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA
3. Messianic Jewish Identity in James – Richard Bauckham, St Andrew’s University, UK
4. Q and James: A Source-Critical Conundrum – Paul Foster, University of Edinburgh, UK
5. Hellenization/Acculturation in 1 Peter – David L. Balch, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, USA
6. The Themes of 1 Peter: Insights from the Earliest Manuscripts (the Crossby-Schøyen Codex Ms 193 and the Bodmer Miscellaneous Codex Containing P72) – David G. Horrell, University of Exeter, UK
7. The Form and Background of the Polemic in 2 Peter – J.H. Neyrey, University of Notre Dame, USA
8. The Relationship of the Fourth Gospel Shared by the Author of 1 John and by His Opponents – Raymond E. Brown, deceased
9. If Anyone Comes… Judith M. Lieu, University of Cambridge, UK
10. What Was from the Beginning: Scripture and Tradition in the Johaninne Epistles -- Judith M. Lieu, University of Cambridge, UK
11. Jude’s Citation of 1 Enoch: From Tertullian to Jacob of Edessa – Jeremy F. Hultin, Union Theological Seminary, USA
12. Jude’s Exegesis -- Richard Bauckham, St Andrew’s University, UK
b. Theological and Interpretive Issues
13. Letter of James as a Document of Paulinism? – Margaret M. Mitchell, University of Chicago, USA
14. Narrating the gospel in 1 and 2 Peter – Joel B. Green, Fuller Theological Seminary, USA
15. Authority to Become Children of God – Judith M. Lieu, University of Cambridge, UK
16. Cosmology in the Petrine Literature and Jude – John Dennis, London School of Theology, UK
17. Jude’s Christology -- Richard Bauckham, St Andrew’s University, UK
18. Further Readings
III. Methodological Approaches
19. Section Introduction -- Darian R. Lockett, Biola University, USA
20. An Assessment of the Rhetoric and Rhetorical Analysis of the Letter of James – Duane F. Watson, Malone University, USA
21. “Unstained by the World”: Purity and Pollution as an Indicator of Cultural Interaction in the Epistle of James -- Darian R. Lockett, Biola University, USA
22. Women on the Edge: New Perspectives on Women in the Petrine Haustafel – Betsy Bauman-Martin, St Norbert College, USA
23. Disgraced Yet Graced: The Gospel of First Peter in the Key of Honor and Shame – John H. Elliott, University of Oxford, UK
24. Polemic and Persuasion: Typological and Rhetorical Perspectives in the Letter of Jude – J. Daryl Charles, Princeton University, USA
25. Further Readings
IV.Reception
26. Section Introduction -- Darian R. Lockett, Biola University, USA
27. The Product of a Petrine Circle? Challenging an Emerging Consensus – David G. Horrell, University of Exeter, UK
28. Acceptance into the Canon—Judith M. Lieu, University of Cambridge, UK
29. The Epistle of Jude in the History of Heresiology – Frederik Wisse, McGill University, Canada
30. Further Readings
Index