1 Peter, 2 Peter & Jude Historical Background

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APPLICATION QUESTIONS: 1) Do you feel like a “cultural exile” and “outsider”? In what ways? 2) When should Christians “submit to” and “honour” influences that come from outside the Christian community? When should they resist them? What wisdom can 1 Peter offer as we grapple with these questions? 3) Pressure to compromise can also come from within the Christian community. How do 2 Peter and Jude help us discern when this is happening? DONATE: www.thebibleeffect.com/partner-with-tbe WEBSITE & FREE BIBLE RESOURCES: www.thebibleeffect.com MORE BIBLE VIDEOS: kzbin.info FOLLOW US: FACEBOOK: facebook.com/experiencethebibleeffect INSTAGRAM: instagram.com/thebibleeffect

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[@TheBibleEffect]

That is wonderful to hear. We hope that your time in the epistles are rich with insight and discovery!

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[@ModernMozart1104]

I commented before on your video on Thessalonians which was fantastic. Really enjoying every single video you guys do. They are great. Curious if you would recommend any book/ resources on digging into the historical context of the books of the Bible. Whichever ones you guys are studying must be some of the best. 🙂

[@TheBibleEffect]

I really love to hear that you not only enjoy our videos, but you are interested in digging more into the historical background. To create our videos, we pull from lots of commentaries, academic journals, and even primary resources from the early days of the church. However, there are some good books that also compile much of this work and make it easy and applicable to use for Bible study. One I recommend is the IVP New Testament Bible Backgrounds Commentary, by Craig Keener. There is also an Old Testament version of the same commentary, put together by a few scholars as well. Another good place to start is with some good Bible dictionaries. They are filled with good topical articles that can be very helpful with finding out more of the background of a given topic. Most of the modern ones are good, though I can also recommend some of the specialized IVP ones, such as Dictionary of NT Background, Dictionary of Jesus & Gospels, Dictionary of Paul & Letters, etc. Beyond these, then you can often find good information on the historical background of the books of the Bible in the introductions of most modern commentaries. The Tyndale commentary series is good, as it does not assume that the reader is coming with knowledge of the scholarly debates, yet they do not compromise on the material they include. I hope that helps. Blessings in your study!

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[@alexandrea3298]

Please make a video for 1&2 John and revelations!!!

[@TheBibleEffect]

Well then I have very good news to share with you. We will be launching a video on the background of 1, 2 & 3 John in early September! After we launch that video, our video on the background of Revelation will move into production. We are very excited to share them both with you! Stay tuned!

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Our video on the background of 1 John, 2 John, and 3 John is now live! Check it out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZSqhHusfrarias

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French is coming soon!

[@parishudkumar]

waiting for the historical background of the 3 letters of John

[@TheBibleEffect]

While we have a few books that we plan to do before John's epistles, we do have plans to do them in the not-too-distant future. We can't wait to share the background video of these powerful epistles with you. Stay tuned!

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[@MinaDKSBMSB]

Peter likely wrote from Babylon, Egypt. This whole Rome=Babylon has very weak evidence.

[@TheBibleEffect]

Thank you for your comment. As you mentioned, there was a small location in Egypt in the first century known as Babylon, and it is a possible location of Peter. However, we went with Rome as it seems to have a greater scholarly body of support behind it. Some of the reasons being, that the Egyptian Babylon seemed to be a Roman military outpost and thus an unlikely place for a church, there are no early traditions linking Peter with Egypt, and a long-standing interpretation in church history of this Babylon being a veiled reference to Rome. That said, it is not out of the realm of possibility that Peter was in fact in Egyptian Babylon. In any case, the message of the book of 1 Peter remains clear to us today. Blessings!

[@MinaDKSBMSB]

@@TheBibleEffect thanks for your response. Love your content. I'd like to point out that Mark is actually the one attributed to bringing the gospel to the Egyptians (or Alexandrians). In that same verse that mentions Babylon, Peter states "She who is in Babylon, elect together with you greets you; and so does Mark my son." Church traditions hold that Mark brought the gospel to Egypt around AD 60-62 (around the time 1 Peter is dated), and that he later went back to the west, including visit(s) to Rome where Peter was martyred later the same decade. Rome started to be referred to Babylon more so after the atrocities with Nero and the Jewish-Roman wars.

[@TheBibleEffect]

@@MinaDKSBMSB Yes, there is a very old tradition that places Mark in Egypt, including his martyrdom. That, alongside the tradition that links Peter with Mark (and his reference in 1 Peter 5:13), would open the possibility of Peter's Babylon reference to be Egypt. Thank you for your comment and adding this viewpoint!