1 Peter is cast in the form of a letter—complete with the identification of the person of the author (“Peter, apostle of Jesus Christ”) and addressee (“the chosen, strangers in the world of the diaspora,” 1:1) in its introduction, and the expected greeting (from “Babylon,” that is, from Rome) in its conclusion (5:12–14). Its lack of greater specificity in its address and its opening reference to a series of contiguous regions of Asia Minor (“Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,” 1:1)