- *audience God's elect, rhtoughoht pontus galatia cappadocia asia and bithynia. suggest a gentile population with some jews: 1 peter
- *Author anonymous: though paul, clement of rome, apollos, barnabas, priscilla, silas, timothy, epapharas, philip, mary mother of Jesus have been suggested: hebrews
- *Author tradition favors James brother of Jesus: james
- *Author:silas may have served as peters secretary in writing. claims to be from peter an apostle of Jesus Christ and fellow author supported several illusuions in the letter: 1 peter
- *call to the Holy as God is Holy: 1 peter
- *Christ a priest in the order of melchizeck: hebrews
- *Christ mediates a better covenant: hebrews
- *Christ sacrifice is one for all unlike the animal sacrifice: hebrews
- *contribution affirmation that faith must be demonstarted in works for it tot be valid: james
- *contribution focus on the relationship of believers with those outside the church, referred to as the rich: james
- *controlling the tongue: james
- *destruction power of the tongue: james
- *friendship with the word: james
- *Impossibility of repentance after apostasy: hebrews
- *Provenance jerusalem: james
- *Provenance rome is suggested..those from Italy send you greetings: hebrews
- *provenance: babylon frequent sybol of rome: 1 peter
- *purpose to attempt to keep jewish christians from reverting from Christ to Judasism, focusing on the supremacy of Christ over the old covenant: hebrews
- *purpose to encourage Christians to follow the example of Christ sufferings in enduring prosecution and living holy lives: 1 peter
- *suffering 4 doing righteous is blessed by God: 1 peter
- *the church as some as a chosen people: 1 peter
- *the dangers of humab passion and arrogance: james
- *The faith chapter: A roll call of old testament heroes of faith: hebrews
- *the impossibility of repentance after apostasy: hebrews
- *the nature of christian salvation: 1 peter
- *the people of God and their relationships in the world state and household: 1 peter
- *the prayer of faith: james
- *the superiority of the priesthood of christ to the priesthood of aaron: hebrews
- *the superiority of the revelation of the son to the old revelation and the superiority of christ angels: hebrews
- *The superiority of the sacrifice of Christ to the sacrifices of the old covenant: hebrews
- *warnings against wealthy oprresors encouragement for the oppressed and the power of prayer: james
- Audience tenor of yhe letter suggest jewish christians prob those who were scattered among the nations: james
- audience: hellenistic jewish christians perhaos in jerusalem or rome: hebrews
- be a doer of the word: james
- Christ as son is superior to moses the servant: hebrews
- Christian behavior based on the superiority of Christ: hebrews
- date based on apparent differences with paul: letters need to be well known, incomplete famiiarity with pauls teaching: james
- Date persecutio of nero would suggest the 60s prior to peters death: 1 peter
- date: before ad 70: hebrews
- faith w/o works is dead: james
- focus on the atonement Christ died for sins once for all, righteous for the unrighteous to bring you to God: 1 peter
- focus on the church as the people of God: 1 peter
- focus on the suffering of Christ as a pattern for believers: 1 peter
- personal and corporate christian disciples: 1 peter
- the sabbath rest of God is available in Christ: hebrews
- the son is the imprint of God and is called God: hebrews
- the superiority of Christ to Moses: hebrews
- the superiority of the rest of Christ to the rest of Joshua: hebrews
- trials wisdom and gifts from God: james
- warning against partially and a faith without works: james