{"product_id":"strangers-to-family-diaspora-and-1-peters-invention-of-gods-household-9781481305488","title":"Strangers to Family: Diaspora and 1 Peter's Invention of God's Household","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eShively T. J. Smith is Assistant Professor of New Testament at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Baylor University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50850890121490,"sku":"9781481305488","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3de3b815-ce0a-41a5-afe4-a959ee42f6b9.jpg?v=1737420300","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/strangers-to-family-diaspora-and-1-peters-invention-of-gods-household-9781481305488","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}