This book attempts to explain how the paraenesis is motivated in 1 Peter. An ideological analysis of this rhetorical text will be executed with a specific technique. By identifying the motivating expressions, and analysing their function in their argumentative context, and by comparting the roles which different themes play in the structures of argumentation in the whole Letter, I seek to reconstruct an ideological structure beyond the text and its particular situation, and thereby reach a sound and cogent picture of the author's thinking. Such view then provides us with a basis for wider inferences about the nature of the Early Christian paraenesis and ethics. Hardcover, 251 pages.
