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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...

In this last of the three volumes in this series, we will be dealing with two quite different documents: 1 and 2 Peter. We will be arguing that the early church fathers were right that 1 Peter is written by Peter to Jewish Christians, much as the Johannine Epistles were written to these same sorts of folks in the neighboring region of Asia Minor. Our assumption, as argued in the first two volumes, will be that the Jewish Christian congregations founded by persons
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