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Andrew M. Mbuvi’s commentary on Jude and 2 Peter in the New Covenant Commentary series examines the two epistles within their first century Greco-Roman world context, but also considers the benefits of a postcolonial, African, and liberation hermeneutic to interpreting the text. The fusing of these horizons allows the ancient church to speak, but also highlights subjects of pressing concern to...

The result is a climactic conclusion of foundational Christian elements of faith and Love.30 Greco-Roman virtue lists were also forms of stereotypes that characterized the “idealized essentials” in a community’s construction of group identity. As such, they were useful for instruction and were commonly utilized as such (e.g., Seneca, Ep. 95:65–67; Herm., Mand., 5.1.1; 8.10). For example, a document of club membership admission from Attica, Greece (AGRW 8 = GRA 1 49 = IG II2 1369), states: “The law
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