Philemon, James, 2 Peter, the Johannine Epistles, and Jude.23 Some of this can be accounted for by the fact that the quoting from or alluding to the OT in general is almost entirely absent in various of these documents. One could theorize that perhaps the converts in Thessalonike, for example, were so overwhelmingly from a pagan background that Paul refrained from using a sacred text with which they would be totally unfamiliar. But this hardly explains the almost total absence of Psalm material in