Earlier this year John H. Elliott published another volume on 1 Peter:
Conflict, Community, and Honor. 1 Peter in Social-Scientific Perspective. (Cascade Books, Eugene, Or., 2007). $11.20.
It is a rather slim volume, containing the following chapters:
Estrangement and Community 1-50
Disgraced yet Graced 51-86
Acknowledgement and a Bibliography are included.
In the preface Elliott states that "Two studies are brought together here. Both involve expansions on my first book on 1 Peter, The Elect and the Holy (1966), putting that tradition-and-redaction analysis of 1 Peter 2:4-10 into a larger literary, social, and cultural framework."
Furthermore, the first essay was originally composed in Rome as early as in 1978. The second essay, written in the mid-nineties, deals with the influences of honor and shame.
It is interesting to see that, with regard to the first issue of that study, Elliott has changed labels as "Christian", "Christianity" and "Jewish" with terms as "Jesus movement", "Christ movement", "messianic community", "Jesus followers",.- and "Israel ", "House of Israel", "Israelites." Strangely enough, he does not substitute "Jews" with "Judeans", as has been argued for by other members of the Context group.
The volume is a fine presentation of Elliott's view on 1 Peter; for those of us who already have read extensively in what Elliott have published on 1 Peter, there is not much new to be found. But Elliott remains one of my favorite expositors of 1 Peter, even though I disagree with him on some issues inherent in the letter, as his understanding of paroikos and parepidemos. But that is not the focus of this volume.
3 comments:
Thanks for starting this blog. I'm amazed to learn that Elliott doesn't replace "Jews" with "Judeans" since he's been the leading crusader for this! (Along with Philip Esler) Have you read his article Jesus was neither a 'Jew' nor a 'Christian'?
Thanks for that reminder; I was also somewhat amazed, and it looks like I was somewhat quick in my statement above. In his own presentations of the various substitutions he uses, he disn't mention 'Judeans', but in his text, e.g., pp. 18-19 he uses 'Judeans' where others might have used 'Jews'. So you are right; Elliott still prefers 'Judeans' to substitute 'Jews'
Torry,
I just came across your interesting web site with its info on 1 Peter. Thanks for noting my latest book on 1 Peter, Conflict community and Honor. Yes I intentionally changed the terminology and thought that I had changed references to "Jews" as well , preferring instead "Israelite," "Israel," "house of Israel," as I have recently argued in my article that has just appeared in the Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus,"Jesus the Israelite was neither a 'Jew' nor a 'Christian.'" The paper will receive a panel discussion later this week at the annual meeting of the AAR/SBL. I wish you all the best on keeping alive good research on 1 Peter. Cordially, Jack Elliott
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