Volume 1 of the ICC commentary on 1 Peter, demonstrating the letter's contribution to early Christianity's development.
The first volume in Travis B. Williams' and David G. Horrell's magisterial ICC commentary on first Peter.
Williams and Horrell bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis - linguistic, textual, archaeological, historical, literary, and theological - to help the reader understand the letter. This first volume presents introductory maps, and a comprehensive introduction covering aspects such as genre, canonicity, early citations of the letter, and its theology and influence. A particular feature of the introduction is that each section is preceded by an initial bibliography. The exegesis also provides for each passage sections on bibliography, text-criticism, literary introduction, detailed exegesis, and overall summary.
Following the introduction volume 1 provides commentary up to 2.10, the conclusion of the first major section of the letter.
"David Horrell is a leading expert on 1 Peter and we are very fortunate to have his contribution to this quality series of introductory guides... Scholars, students and teachers who know Horrell's well-received Introduction to the Study of Paul (now in its second edition), will not be disappointed by the present volume, which continues to evince Horrell's knack for summarizing a point of discussion while in the same breath contributing materially to it." Journal for the Study of the New Testament Booklist 2009
