Part of New Testament Books:
6. The Letters of Peter
9. Revelation
A. 1 Peter
1. Literary history. The letter, according to its heading, is written by the Apostle Peter (1:1), from Babylon (5:13), i.e., Rome, to the Church of Asia Minor (1:1). Babylon, the worldly and ungodly city of the prophets (Is 13; 43:14; Jer 50 and 51) is certainly taken as standing for Rome (cf. Rev 14:8 – 18:2; Sibylline Oracles, 5,…