The message and world of Jude are strangely unfamiliar to modern readers. Whether among lay people, pastors, teachers, or seminarians, this unfamiliarity is conspicuous. With good reason, the letter of Jude has been called “the most neglected book in the NT” (Rowston: 554). Most readers of the Bible, puzzled by cryptic references to Enoch, Michael the archangel, the devil, and a slate of OT characters, are acquainted at best with the letter’s doxology. Although
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