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Letters and Homilies for Hellenized Christians, Volume I: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary on Titus, 1–2 Timothy and 1–3 John is unavailable, but you can change that!

Letters and Homilies for Hellenized Christians is the first of three volumes extending Ben Witherington’s innovative socio-rhetorical analysis of New Testament books to the latter-Pauline and non-Pauline corpora. A second volume will continue the focus on letters and homilies for Hellenized Christians (1-2 Peter), while a third will focus on letters and homilies for Jewish Christians (Hebrews,...

view Jesus as simply a sage or a miracle worker who deserved to be followed and emulated? I agree with Trebilco that it would appear that the reason for all the emphasis in 1 John on the atoning or salvific death of Jesus is perhaps because these secessionists were denying that significance to the crucified Jesus.18 So if they were denying that Jesus is the Christ come in the flesh and that his death is salvific, it is perhaps worth noticing that both of these denials are things that Paul associates
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