Reading Jude with new eyes : methodological reassessments of the letter of Jude / edited by Robert L. Webb and Peter H. Davids.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Webb, Robert L. (Robert Leslie), 1955-

Davids, Peter H.

Series:

Library of New Testament studies ; 383.

T & T Clark library of biblical studies

Library of New Testament studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Jude--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Bible. Jude.

Physical Description:

viii, 154 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : T & T Clark, [2008]

Summary:

The Library of New Testament Studies (LNTS) is a premier book series that offers cutting-edge work for a readership of scholars, teachers in the field of New Testament studies, postgraduate students and advanced undergraduates. All the many and diverse aspects of New Testament study are represented and promoted, including innovative work from historical perspectives, studies using social-scientific and literary theory, and developing theological, cultural and contextual approaches.

The letters of James, 1 and 2 Peter, and Jude are among the most neglected texts of the New Testament. Methodological advances in New Testament scholarship have tended to arise within the study of the Gospels or Pauline letters. However, these lesser known epistles are now beginning to receive increased attention in the scholarly community.

Reading Jude with New Eyes is part of a series of four volumes that incorporate research in this area. The essays collected here examine the impact of recent methodological developments in New Testament studies upon the study of Jude, including rhetorical, social-scientific, socio-rhetorical, ideological and hermeneutical methods, as they contribute to understanding Jude and its social context. Each essay has a similar three-fold structure: a description of the methodological approach; the application of this approach to Jude; and a conclusion identifying how it contributes to a fresh understanding of the letter.

Contents:

Introduction / Peter H. Davids, Robert L. Webb 1

Purity and Polemic: A Reassessment of Jude's Theological World / Darian Lockett 5

Bourdieu Reads Jude: Reconsidering the Letter of Jude through Pierre Bourdieu's Sociology / Jeremy F. Hultin 32

Postcolonial Pollution in the Letter of Jude / Betsy Bauman-Martin 54

Polemic and Persuasion: Typological and Rhetorical Perspectives on the Letter of Jude / J. Daryl Charles 81

The Rhetorical Function of Visual Imagery in Jude: A Socio-Rhetorical Experiment in Rhetography / Robert L. Webb 109.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [136]-146) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780567033611

0567033619

OCLC:

212847444