Jude. The detailed exegetical work which I published in the commentary is not repeated in this book. Instead, in chapter 3, a detailed review of scholarship on Jude is offered, and in chapters 4, 5 and 6 the importance of Jude for our understanding of early Palestinian Jewish Christianity is explored by way of certain issues and themes. Thus Jude’s letter lies at the centre of this book, but the circumference encompasses the role of all the relatives of Jesus in the early church about whom we have