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Enlarged print edition now available! In this penultimate volume of the New Testament for Everyone series, Tom Wright explores the early Christian letters, also known as the general or catholic epistles. These letters include James, first and second Peter, first, second, and third John, and Jude. Tom Wright has undertaken a tremendous task: to provide guides to all the books of the New Testament, and to include in them his own translation of the entire text. Each short passage is followed by a highly readable discussion with background information, useful explanations and suggestions, and thoughts as to how the text can be relevant to our lives today. A glossary is included at the back of the book. The series is suitable for group study, personal study, or daily devotions.… (more)
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As with the other books in the "for everyone" series, each section of Scripture is translated by Wright with a view to a modern British audience, provides some sort of story or illustration, and then makes
Wright does an excellent job of transcending all of the scholarly disputes regarding the authors of these letters; he explains them in terms of their original context in the first century and what they would mean to the people to whom they were written. Applications still remain robust and are quite more "conservative" than many would generally believe.
An excellent commentary on these letters and most worthy of consideration.
**--galley received as part of early review program