The History of Exegesis and Marginal Books of the New Testament: The Patristic Reception History of 1 Peter KU Leuven
This project is an enquiry into the nature of the authority assigned by the Early Church to 1 Peter, a letter that seems to have had a rather marginal status in the corpus of New Testament writings. Andreas Merkt (Regensburg) has studied the reception history of 1 Peter 1:1-2:10 for the international project Novum Testamentum Patristicum (currently in press). This present proposal should result in a follow-up volume on 1 Peter 2:11-5:14. Only a ...