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Reading 1 Peter, Jude, and 2 Peter
A Literary and Theological Commentary

Editor's Foreword

Author's Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction

1 Peter

Introduction

Author and Audience

Composition and Content

Occasion, Strategy, and Message

Opening (1:1-2)

Writer (1:1a)

Addresses (1:1b-21)

Greeting (1:2b)

Through Mercy, Chosen to Be God's People (1:3-2:10)

Blessing: New Birth, Joy, Salvation (1:3-12)

Conduct: Holiness, Faith, Love (1:13-25)

Growth as God's People (2:1-10)

Exhortation for Resident Aliens and Religious Exiles (2:11-4:11)

Honorable Conduct: Duty Code (2:11-3:12)

Soteriological and Paradigmatic Role of Suffering (3:13-4:6)

Community Exhortation in View of the End (4:7-11)

Final Considerations and Renewed Exhortation (4:12-5:11)

Sharing Christ's Sufferings (4:12-19)

Community Code and Exhortation (5:1-5)

Closing Exhortation (5:6-11)

Closing (5:12-14)

The Letter, Its Carrier, and Its Purpose (5:12)

Koinonia and Other Themes (5:13-14a)

A Final Benediction (5:14b)

Jude

Introduction

Author and Audience

Composition and Content

Strategy and Message

Opening (1-3)

Epistolary Opening (1-2)

Body Opening (3)

Six Alternating Patterns Regarding False Teachers (4-23)

False Teachers, Charges, and Punishment (4-7)

Triple Charges and Prediction of Divine Judgment (8-9)

Charges, Condemnation, and Divine Punishment (10-11)

Multiple Charges and Prediction of Divine Judgement (12-15)

Charges and Apostolic Predictions (16-18)

Charges, Community Activity, Body Closing (19-23)

Closing (24-25)

Praise to God as Protector (24)

A Closing Doxology (25)

2 Peter

Redaction of Jude by 2 Peter

Introduction

Author and Audience

Genre, Content, and Structure

Strategy and Message

Opening (1:1-11)

Epistolary Opening (1:1-2)

Body Opening (1:3-11)

True and False Prophecy (1:12-2:22)

Peter and the Reliability of Apostolic Tradition (1:12-21)

False Teachers: Their Deception and Punishment (2:1-22)

The Lord's Day: Promise, Providence, and Power (3:1-16)

Delay of the Parousia, Repentance, Endtime (3:1-10)

Final Exhortation about Holy Conduct (3:11-16)

Closing (3:17-18)

Final Exhortation (3:17-18a)

A Closing Doxology (3:18b)