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In her commentary on John’s letters, Karen H. Jobes writes to bridge the distance between academic biblical studies and pastors, students, and laypeople who are looking for an in-depth treatment of the issues raised by these New Testament books. She approaches the three letters of John as part of the corpus that includes John’s Gospel, while rejecting an elaborate redactional history of that...

We know 1 John originated in a written form because the verb “I/we write [γράφω] these things” occurs more than a dozen times in reference to the letter (e.g., 1 John 1:4; 2:1; 5:13). Yet this document does not have the form of personal correspondence since it lacks an address and salutation and a letter closing. Because of this, there was once an attempt to call such a writing an “epistle” in distinction from a letter, but scholars have largely abandoned
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