Allusions to these letters go back as far as Justin Martyr, Irenaeus and Tertullian, but the first commentary derives from Clement of Alexandria. Didymus the Blind was the next significant Greek-speaking commentator, though his commentary is fully extant only in Latin translatio…
As the first comparative study of Colossians and 1 Peter, this book fills the need for a more refined understanding of the new existence and moral enablement by each epistle's author. It detects distinguishing emphases in each author's theology locating antecedents in cognitive …
In this work, Travis B. Williams offers a comprehensive and detailed socio-historical investigation into the nature of persecution in 1 Peter, situating the epistle against the backdrop of conflict management in first-century CE Asia Minor.
