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Letters and Homilies for Hellenized Christians, Volume II: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary on 1–2 Peter is unavailable, but you can change that!

Letters and Homilies for Hellenized Christians, Volume 2 is the third of three volumes extending Ben Witherington’s innovative socio-rhetorical analysis of New Testament books to the latter-Pauline and non-Pauline corpora. By dividing the volumes according to the socioreligious contexts for which they were written, Witherington sheds fresh light on the documents, their provenance, character and...

to the extent they are able, seek the good of their city or town by doing good deeds and even blessing those who misuse them. Peter sees this as a response modeled on the way Jesus handled such situations. “It does not suffice that they are not evil-doers but ordinary citizens, they should do even more and be extraordinarily good ones. This serves, according to the author, God’s strategy: by doing good the addressees can convert the Gentiles to praise God.”198 Hence, we should likely see the so-called
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