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Nurslings, Milk and Moral Development in the Greco-Roman Context: A Reappraisal of the Paraenetic Utilization of Metaphor in 1 Peter 2.1-3

Department of Religious Studies, Willamette University, Salem, OR 97301, USA, ptite{at}willamette.edu

A scholarly tradition exists linking the nursling-milk metaphor in 1 Pet. 2.1-3 with Jewish (or Jewish-Christian) motifs from, for example, the Odes of Solomon and Qumran. This article attempts to broaden the cultural associations of this metaphor to include the broader Greco-Roman world—specifically the role of the wet nurse, the idealized mother, and formative moral development of the child through breast-feeding and childminders (nutrix and nutritor). This article will then link these cultural referents to the rhetorical strategy of this section of 1 Peter's paraenesis.

Key Words: 1 Peter • ancient gynaecology • milk • paraenesis • Roman family • wet-nursing

Journal for the Study of the New Testament, Vol. 31, No. 4, 371-400 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0142064X09104957


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