Reading Second Peter with New Eyes

Robert L. Webb lectures in the Religious Studies Department of McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. He is the executive editor of the Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus (Sage) and of the monograph series Library of Historical Jesus Studies (a subset of LNTS, T&T Clark). With John Kloppenborg, his most recent book was Reading James with New Eyes: Methodological Reassessments of the Letter of James (T&T Clark, 2007). Duane F. Watson is Professor of New Testament Studies at Malone College in Canton, Ohio, USA.

1. Rhetography and Rhetology of Apocalyptic Discourse in 2 Peter, Terrance Callan, The Athenaeum of Ohio; 2. Narrative Method and the Second Epistle of Peter, Ruth Anne Reese, Asbury Theological Seminary; 3. "Irrational Animals":Hybridity, Alterity and Name-Calling in 2 Peter 2, a Postcolonial Reading, Robert Paul Seesengood, University of North Carolina at Pembroke; 4. A Comparision of Rhetorical and Socio-Rhetorical Criticism in Relation to 2 Peter, Duane F. Watson, Malone College; 5. Social Identity and 2 Peter, James C. Miller, Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology; 6. The Visualization of "Knowledge" in Second Peter: A Study in Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation's Rhetorographical Blending, Dennis Sylva, Saint Francis Seminary.