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2 Peter, Jude: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

Jerome H. Neyrey gives us a thoroughly up-to-date and comprehensive study of two of the most obscure books of the New Testament. Written after the death of Jesus and his Apostles, the Epistles of 2 Peter and Jude offer a glimpse into the turbulent life of the early Christian communities. Neyrey’s fascinating study not only provides an entirely new translation of the two texts, but also stirring...

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
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