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Reading the Epistles of James, Peter, John, and Jude as Scripture: The Shaping and Shape of a Canonical Collection is unavailable, but you can change that!

Through a detailed examination of the historical shaping and final canonical shape of seven oft-neglected New Testament letters James, 1 & 2 Peter, 1, 2, & 3 John, and Jude, this text introduces readers to the historical, literary, and theological integrity of this indispensable apostolic witness. While most modern scholars interpret biblical texts against the diversity of their individual...

Without denying the importance of this work, our book inclines the angle of approach toward the CE differently, admitting into evidence new findings from the canonical period when these seven books were formed into a second collection of letters “to provide a broader and more balanced literary representation of the apostolic witness than the letters of Paul furnished by themselves.”23 In doing so, we intend to challenge the critical consensus regarding the theological incoherence of the CE collection.
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