Interpreting 2 Peter
“What would happen if we took…2,000 years of contextual interpretive work…and we looked at different ways of knowing as a resource of interpreting these texts?” Assistant Professor of New Testament Shively T. J. Smith asks the question that launched her research and recent publication of her latest book “Interpreting 2 Peter through African American Women’s Moral Writings.”
She describes how 2 Peter is the “only letter in the entire New Testament that begins with the matter of justice” and that looking through the lens of 19th-century African American women writers helps the reader revisit old teachings in a new way.