Author |
Callan, Terrance, 1947-
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Subject |
Bible. Peter, 2nd -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Description |
xix, 223 pages ; 23 cm. |
Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Summary |
A collection of twelve previously published academic essays on the Second Letter of Peter. The essays illuminate selected features of this somewhat mysterious and rather neglected part of the New Testament. They invite further exploration of these features and of others not yet illuminated. --Back Cover. |
Contents |
Use of the Letter of Jude by the Second Letter of Peter -- The Christology of the Second Letter of Peter -- The Soteriology of the Second Letter of Peter -- The style of the Second Letter of Peter -- The syntax of 2 Peter 1:1-7 -- A note on 2 Peter 1:19-20 -- Rhetography and rhetology of Apocalyptic discourse in 2 Peter -- Comparison of humans to animals in 2 Peter 2:10b-22 -- The Gospels of Matthew and John in the Second Letter of Peter -- Faith and faithfulness in 2 Peter -- Reading the earliest copies of 2 Peter -- The Second Letter of Peter, Josephus, and Gnosticism. |
ISBN |
1532694105 (paperback) |
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9781532694103 (paperback) |
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9781532694110 (hardback) |
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1532694113 (hardback) |
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9781532694127 (ebook) |
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1532694121 (ebook) |
OCLC # |
1149160836 |
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