The first volume in Travis B. Williams' and David G. Horrell's magisterial ICC commentary on first Peter. Williams and Horrell bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis - linguistic, textual, archaeological, historical, literary, and theological - to help the reader understand the letter. This first volume presents introductory maps, and a comprehensive introduction covering aspects such as genre, canonicity, early citations of the letter, and its theology and influence. A particular feature of the introduction is that each section is preceded by an initial bibliography. The exegesis also provides for each passage sections on bibliography, text-criticism, literary introduction, detailed exegesis, and overall summary. Following the introduction volume 1 provides commentary up to 2.10, the conclusion of the first major section of the letter. "David Horrell is a leading expert on 1 Peter and we are very fortunate to have his contribution to this quality series of introductory guides... Scholars, students and teachers who know Horrell's well-received Introduction to the Study of Paul (now in its second edition), will not be disappointed by the present volume, which continues to evince Horrell's knack for summarizing a point of discussion while in the same breath contributing materially to it." Journal for the Study of the New Testament Booklist 2009