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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....

expresses a similar evaluation: ‘In contrast to the bulk of commentators who see in Jude only denunciation and invective, we are quick to point out that the epistle was written with a view of exhorting the faithful to press on, and not merely excoriating those who rebel’.7 Rather than a vituperative rant, Jude is a carefully crafted text which aims to persuade its readers to adopt a particular stance toward a dangerous group of infiltrators as well as orient themselves within a particular theological
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