The Catholic Epistles and Apostolic Tradition: A New Perspective on James to Jude

CONTENTS

List of Contributors ix Part I Introduction 1 The SNTS Seminar on the Catholic Epistles (2001–2006) 1 Robert W. Wall and Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr Part II Catholic Epistles as a Collection 2 A Unifying Theology of the Catholic Epistles 13 Robert W. Wall Part III James 3 James in the Minds of the Recipients 43 Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr 4 James and the Jesus Tradition 55 Patrick J. Hartin 5 The Reception of the Jesus Tradition in James 71 John S. Kloppenborg 6 The Historical Context of the Letter of James in Light of Its Traditio-Historical Relations with First Peter 101 Matthias Konradt CONTENTS viii CONTENTS 7 Acts and James 127 Robert W. Wall 8 The Priority of James 153 Robert W. Wall 9 James as the First Catholic Epistle 161 John Painter 10 The Letter of James as a Canon-Conscious Pseudepigraph 183 David R. Nienhuis Part IV Petrine Epistles 11 Salvation and Anthropology in First Peter 203 Reinhard Feldmeier 12 First Peter as Early Christian Diaspora Letter 215 Lutz Doering Part V Johannine Epistles 13 The Johannine Epistles as Catholic Epistles 239 John Painter Part VI Jude 14 The Epistle of Jude between Judaism and Hellenism 309 Jörg Frey 15 Salvation in Jude 5 and the Argument of 2 Peter 1:3-11 331 Scott J. Hafemann Part VII Conclusion 16 A Prolegomenon to a History of the “Postapostolic Era” (Early Christianity 70–150 CE) 345 Ernst Baasland Notes 369 Bibliography 491 Author Index 529 ...