Letters are not only ascribed to Paul after his death. The New Testament also includes letters associated with Peter, John, and James. Because of space limits, we cannot discuss all these letters. We will have to pass over the three letters written in John’s name, and the Letter of Jude. The two letters written in Peter’s name were probably composed after Peter’s death, traditionally understood to have occurred in the 60s CE during Nero’s attack on believers in Rome. The sophisticated