undisputed Petrine material for comparison. Nevertheless, a large proportion of scholars—indeed, the majority of those publishing in conventional academic venues—doubt that Peter authored 1 Peter.45 Their most important argument stems from their (correct) observation that the style of 1 Peter is fairly eloquent Greek.46 Some defenders of Peter as author respond that a Galilean fisherman could have known Greek. While Peter undoubtedly did know Greek,47 however, it is not likely that he could, without