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The commentaries on Peter and Jude underscore the light that these letters shed upon one another and focuses on the snapshots they provide of early Christian communities as they encountered the social and religious environment in which they were situated. Careful reading of 1 Peter reveals the complex world of the post-apostolic period. Jude and 2 Peter provide a sober look at the early...

disobedience, a disregard of God’s will that brought about corruption on the earth as well as punishment. In contrast the latter is one who obeyed the Lord’s command to build an ark for the salvation of the few (see 1 En 10:2, 3 and often) and leads in Christian terms to another, greater story concerning salvation involving water (v. 21). The story of Noah, with a surprising number of details, is brought into the author’s discussion for a number of reasons. Not only is this story repeatedly associated
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