{"product_id":"strangers-to-family-diaspora-and-1-peters-invention-of-gods-household-hardcover","title":"Strangers to Family: Diaspora and 1 Peter's Invention of God's Household - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eShively T. J. Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eStrangers to Family\u003c\/i\u003e Shively Smith reads the Letter of 1 Peter through a new model of diaspora. Smith illuminates this peculiarly Petrine understanding of diaspora by situating it among three other select perspectives from extant Hellenist Jewish writings: the Daniel court tales, the Letter of Aristeas, and Philo's works. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile 1 Peter tends to be taken as representative of how diaspora was understood in Hellenistic Jewish and early Christian circles, Smith demonstrates that 1 Peter actually reverses the most fundamental meaning of diaspora as conceived by its literary peers. Instead of connoting the scattering of a people with a common territorial origin, for 1 Peter, diaspora constitutes an \"already-scattered-people\" who share a common, communal, celestial destination. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSmith's discovery of a distinctive instantiation of diaspora in 1 Peter capitalizes on her careful comparative historical, literary, and theological analysis of diaspora constructions found in Hellenistic Jewish writings. Her reading of 1 Peter thus challenges the use of the exile and wandering as master concepts to read 1 Peter, reconsiders the conceptual significance of diaspora in 1 Peter and in the entire New Testament canon, and liberates 1 Peter from being interpreted solely through the rubrics of either the stranger-homelessness model or household codes. First Peter does not recycle standard diasporic identity, but is, as \u003ci\u003eStrangers to Family\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates, an epistle that represents the earliest Christian construction of diaspora as a way of life.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShively T. J. Smith is Assistant Professor of New Testament at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 229\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.3 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 15, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47469815693490,"sku":"9781481305488","price":80.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/844ce00e2131af66413cf918e6ea5cc4.webp?v=1779081204","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/strangers-to-family-diaspora-and-1-peters-invention-of-gods-household-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}