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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...

(“sharing the sufferings of Christ”—4:13). Thus scholars routinely appealed to three persecution dates: the time of Nero (54–68), of Domitian (81–96), or of the Trajan-Pliny correspondence (c. 112). More recent scholarship questions the wisdom of such an analysis and has concluded that 1 Peter focuses on Christian suffering not as a result of persecution but as the result of hostility, harassment, and social, unofficial ostracism on the part of the general populace. The author perceives the Christian
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