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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...

at least, he had a good eyewitness and original preacher source (just as he claims in Lk 1:1–4): the man called Cephas. While all roads may not lead to Rome, all these rabbit trails and echoes of other Christian sources in 1 Peter eventually lead back to the historical figure of Peter himself. He is the best candidate, perhaps with the help of Silvanus, for the authorship of 1 Peter, just as he is the one who spoke of these things on many occasions to Jews in Jerusalem and elsewhere during the first
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