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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...

and the other apostles to the seventy, of whom Barnabas was one. (Hyp. 8 in H.E. 2.1.4) Again, Clement’s awareness of traditions surrounding James’s authority makes it even more difficult to understand how he could avoid referring directly to the letter of James if he were aware of its existence.20 It is with the great biblical scholar Origen of Alexandria (d. ca. 253) that we enter a new phase in the development of the CE collection, for Origen is the first church father to offer some overt comment
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