Reading Jude With New Eyes Methodological Reassessments of the Letter of Jude

by Webb, Robert L.; Davids, Peter Hugh

• ISBN13: 9780567033611
• ISBN10: 0567033619
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-03-16
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark

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.

Author Biography

Robert L. Webb lectures at McMaster University, Canada, and is the coeditor with Kathleen E. Corley of Jesus and Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ: The Film, the Gospels, and the Claims of History (Continuum, 2004). Peter hugh Davids is Professor of New Testament Theology at St. Stephen's University, New Brunswick, Canada.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations	p. vii
List of Contributors	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Purity and Polemic: A Reassessment of Jude's Theological World	p. 5
Bourdieu Reads Jude: Reconsidering the Letter of Jude through Pierre Bourdieu's Sociology	p. 32
Postcolonial Pollution in the Letter of Jude	p. 54
Polemic and Persuasion: Typological and Rhetorical Perspectives on the Letter of Jude	p. 81
The Rhetorical Function of Visual Imagery in Jude: A Socio-Rhetorical Experiment in Rhetography	p. 109
Bibliography	p. 136
Index of Ancient Texts	p. 147
Index of Authors	p. 152
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