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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...

inculcating an otherworldly attitude and approach to life. To the contrary, this document is an ad hoc pastoral document, and even the theological discussions present serve as the undergirding for the ethics, values, virtues, practices being inculcated by the author. The paraenesis is not an afterthought or an add-on to the discourse in 1 Peter. On the contrary it is at the heart of the socially formative purposes of the author, who is constructing the ethos of a community under fire and enduring
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