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Interpreting the General Letters provides important background material for the interpretation of the books of Hebrews, James, the Petrine Letters, the Johannine Letters, and Jude. New Testament scholar Herbert Bateman lays a strong hermeneutical foundation, detailing the component parts of letter writing, the importance of an amanuensis, the historical background of the Greco-Roman world, and...

The Chapter at a Glance Component Parts of a Letter Opening Salutations • The Sender of a Letter • The Recipient of a Letter • The Greeting of a Letter Types of New Testament Epistolary Correspondence • Types of Ancient Letters • Types of General Letters Trained Letter Writers • The Need for Trained Letter Writers • Pseudonymity and the General Letters AS WE BEGIN THIS CHAPTER ABOUT “The Genre of the General Letters,” it is helpful to bear in mind that we are talking
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