warrant evaluation according to a different set of comparative materials both from the Greco-Roman world and from Jewish sources. In recent years, NT scholarship has been vitalized by a new interest in the literary techniques of writing, reading, and rhetoric (e.g., D. F. Watson, Invention, Arrangement and Style [SBLDS 104. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1988]). Considerable new light is shed on Jude and 2 Peter when one notes the many literary forms that comprise them or when one studies the shape of