The Sacred Seven
The traditional title for the collection of these seven letters: James, 1-2 Peter, 1-3 John, and Jude.
What are the Catholic Letters?
Many of the last eight books of the NT are concerned with this problem, which is the possibility of falling away from the true faith.
What is apostasy?
Since the 1700s, NT scholars have increasingly held that Hebrews was written to a church in this city.
What is Rome?
A literary device consisting of the repetition of phrase, as in Hebrews 11's refrain, "By faith . . .".
What is anaphora?
The three genres of Revelation.
What are letter, prophecy, and apocalyptic?
The dominant theme of this letter involves teaching and exhortations to live by righteous wisdom.
What is the Letter of James?
The Greek term meaning "presence" or "coming," used by NT scholars as a technical term for the Second Coming of Christ.
What is the Parousia?
According to the church father, Tertullian, this person was the author of Hebrews.
Who is Barnabas?
This is a literary technique that creates a list that builds up concepts one upon another to create a crescendo (e.g., 2 Pet 1:5-7).
What is climax?
The author of Revelation self-identifies by this name.
What is John?
According to this letter, the Day of the Lord will come "like a thief" to bring this hopelessly corrupt world to an end and create a new heaven and new earth.
What is 2 Peter?
Second Peter 3 deals with this problem, which concerns the fact that some time had passed and Christ still had not yet come back.
What is the delay of the Parousia?
According to Martin Luther, this person was the author of Hebrews.
Who is Apollos?
The Letter of James contains epistolary elements and moral exhortations (parenesis), but its teaching especially falls under this Hebrew genre.
What is wisdom literature?
Revelation 2-3 contains letters to this number of churches.
What is seven churches?
The only NT book to quote from and allude to OT Pseudepigrapha (1 Enoch and Testament of Moses).
What is the Letter of Jude?
The concept of atonement that refers to the removal of the guilt of sin through sacrifice.
What is expiation?
Hebrews is found in this manuscript, which is the earliest collection of Paul's letters (ca. AD 200).
What is p46?
This kind of literature is characterized by cosmic dualism and conflict between the forces of God and Satan, the revealing of heavenly secrets by angelic messengers, vivid symbolic imagery, and strange creatures.
What is apocalyptic?
Who is "the elder"?
The readers were Gentiles, yet this letter addresses them like they were the same Israel whose ancestors encountered God at Mt. Sinai (Exod 19).
What is 1 Peter?
The concept of atonement in which God's wrath is redirected from the sinner to the sacrificial victim (e.g., Christ).
What is propitiation?
What is "God / Jesus / the Spirit says"?
Its genre, if 2 Peter is pseudepigraphal.
What is a testamentary letter?
The nemesis of the author, denounced in 3 John.
Who is Diotrephes?