{"product_id":"9781481305501","title":"Strangers to Family: Diaspora and 1 Peter's Invention of God's Household","description":"In \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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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.","brand":"Baylor University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47177775186160,"sku":"9781481305501","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781481305501_p0.jpg?v=1763621573","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781481305501","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}