IBR and BBR online

The Institute for Biblical Research has launched its new web page with a new URL. Try this one: http://www.ibr-bbr.org/index.html.

In addition to diverse postings of information concerning the activities of the institute, they now also launch a new availablity to the articles of Bulletin for Biblical Research. This is great news as the journal contains several interesting articles, including some on 1 Peter.

BBR Articles Listed by Date (Full text 1991-2004.1; abstracts 2005.1-2007.1)

BBR Articles Listed by Authors
The BBR articles listed on their page are found in the following three formats:
*.html (Web format for quick viewing on your computer screen);
*.doc (Microsoft Word format for using in word processing);
*.pdf (Adobe Acrobat format for printing and viewing exactly formatted). Only the latter is included here.

3 articles dealing with 1 Peter is now available here online: Have a look at the following:

Spencer, Aida Besancon. "Peter's Pedagogical Method in 1 Peter 3:6."
BBR 10.1 (2000): 107-21. *.pdf [Acrobat]

Seland, Torrey, "paroikoi kai parepidhmoi: Proselyte
Characterizations in 1 Peter?," Bulletin for Biblical Research
11.2 (2001) 239-68. *.pdf [Acrobat]

Jobes, Karen H., "The Syntax of 1 Peter: Just How Good Is the Greek? Bulletin for Biblical Research 13.2
(2003): 159-73. *.pdf [Acrobat]


Not available online:
SHORT STUDY
Greg Forbes, Becoming Children of Sarah: Interpreting 1 Peter 3:6b 105

Any translation of 1 Pet 3:6b that treats the expression agaqopoiousai kai mh foboumenai mhdemian ptohsin in a conditional sense, either directly or indirectly, cannot be sustained. The use of participles as imperatives elsewhere in the Household Code and the theology of 1 Peter more generally indicate that “doing good and not being terrified” are behavioral characteristics that the author wants to see in the readers as a result of their elect status.