Letters of James and Peter (The Daily Study Bible Series. -- Rev. ed)

In this Revised Edition of “The Letters of James and Peter,” Dr. William Barclay examines “The Letter of James” - its authorship, its date, its curious omission of references to Jesus' resurrection and Messiahship, and the form in which it is cast - and shows that works and faith are both essential aspects of the apostolic message. Dr. Barclay discusses the sense in which it is correct to call “The First Letter of Peter” one of the “catholic” or “general” epistles, its five basic theological ideas (the kerygma of the early church), its authorship and date, and the Greek Gentiles to whom it was addressed. He shows that “Second Peter,” which is largely a denunciation of heretics and false teachers, can hardly have been written by the same man as “First Peter.”