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    "slug": "general-epistles",
    "name": "General Epistles",
    "stream": "greco-christian",
    "epoch_reflected": "greco-latin",
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    "form": "apostolic letters",
    "tradition": "Christian",
    "author": null,
    "year_approx": 80,
    "note": "The seven catholic (universal) epistles, addressed to the church at large rather than to a specific community: James, 1 + 2 Peter, 1 + 2 + 3 John, and Jude. ASV (1901).",
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      "num": 1,
      "slug": "james",
      "title": "James",
      "words": 2540,
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      "subtitle": "James — faith without works is dead",
      "blurb": "Attributed to James the brother of the Lord. The famous teaching: *faith without works is dead* (2:17, 26) — the apparent counter-balance to Paul's *justification by faith*. The chapter on the taming of the tongue (ch 3); the warning against the rich (ch 5); the practice of anointing the sick (5:14)."
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    {
      "num": 2,
      "slug": "1-peter",
      "title": "1 Peter",
      "words": 2664,
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      "subtitle": "1 Peter — a letter to suffering Gentile Christians",
      "blurb": "Addressed to Christians scattered across Asia Minor (1:1) facing social hostility for their faith. The doctrine of the new birth into a living hope; the *royal priesthood*, the *holy nation* (2:9); the *passibilist* Christology — Christ who suffered, the model for the church. *Cast all your care upon him, for he cares for you* (5:7)."
    },
    {
      "num": 3,
      "slug": "2-peter",
      "title": "2 Peter",
      "words": 1683,
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      "subtitle": "2 Peter — against scoffers; the parousia delayed",
      "blurb": "Addresses the problem of the delayed parousia: *Where is the promise of his coming?* The famous answer: *with the Lord one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day* (3:8); the day of the Lord will come unexpectedly as a thief, with the elements melting in fire."
    },
    {
      "num": 4,
      "slug": "1-john",
      "title": "1 John",
      "words": 2718,
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      "subtitle": "1 John — God is light; God is love",
      "blurb": "Most likely from the Johannine school that produced the gospel. The two great formulas: *God is light, and in him is no darkness at all* (1:5) and *God is love* (4:8, 16). The polemic against the proto-docetic teaching that denied Jesus' true incarnation; the doctrine of *abiding* in Christ."
    },
    {
      "num": 5,
      "slug": "2-john",
      "title": "2 John",
      "words": 337,
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      "subtitle": "2 John — to the *elect lady*",
      "blurb": "Short letter from *the elder* to *the elect lady and her children* — likely a personification of a particular church. The double exhortation: walk in truth, love one another; and the warning against those who deny that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh — receive them not."
    },
    {
      "num": 6,
      "slug": "3-john",
      "title": "3 John",
      "words": 339,
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      "project_translation": false,
      "subtitle": "3 John — to Gaius; against Diotrephes",
      "blurb": "The shortest book in the NT. From *the elder* to Gaius, commending him for hospitality to travelling teachers; warning against Diotrephes 'who loves to be first' and refuses to receive the elder's missives. A glimpse of late first-century church politics."
    },
    {
      "num": 7,
      "slug": "jude",
      "title": "Jude",
      "words": 690,
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      "subtitle": "Jude — against intruders; the contention over Moses' body",
      "blurb": "From *Jude, brother of James* (i.e., another brother of the Lord). Polemic against the *certain men crept in unawares* — false teachers using grace as a pretext for licence. Quotes the *Assumption of Moses* (the dispute over Moses' body between Michael and the devil) and the *Book of Enoch* (Enoch the seventh from Adam prophesying)."
    }
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