By Earl J. Richard

This quantity is devoted to the research of 3 past due, little-known biblical works that traditionally were relegated to the lesser works of the recent testomony. analyzing 1 Peter, Jude, and a couple of Peter underscores the sunshine that those letters shed upon each other and specializes in the snapshots they supply of early Christian groups as they encountered the social and spiritual surroundings within which they have been situated.

Careful examining of one Peter unearths the complicated global of the post-apostolic interval. Jude and a pair of Peter supply a sober examine the early community's evolution in doctrinal and ethical terms.

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