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Reading Jude With New Eyes: Methodological Reassessments of the Letter of Jude is unavailable, but you can change that!

The letters of James, 1 and 2 Peter, and Jude are among the most neglected letters of the New Testament. Thus, methodological advances in New Testament study tend to arise among the Gospels or Pauline letters. But these letters are beginning to receive increased attention in the scholarly community. Reading Jude with New Eyes is the fourth of four volumes that incorporate research in this area....

The structure of the passage depends on whether one follows a traditional three-phrase text or if one opts to emend the passage and thus render the passage in two phrases. The NRSV follows the traditional three-phrase translation: ‘And have mercy on some who are wavering; 23 save others by snatching them out of the fire; and have mercy on still others with fear, hating even the tunic defiled by their bodies.’ Whereas commentators such as Bauckham follow the shorter, two-phrase text: ‘snatch some
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