Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great
Angels: “archangels,” ; the “holy ones,” ; Jesus accompanied by the “angels of his power,”
Antiochus IV,
Anti-Semitism by early Christians
Athens
Authorship of first letter
Authorship of second letter (refuting forging arguments); and acquaintance with/use of language and terms from First Letter; anarthrous use of “the Lord,” ; the disruptive-idle and the captatio benevolentiae; intertextual use of the Septuagint of Isaiah; and Paul’s high Christology; and Paul’s personal closing greeting ; salutation and use of first person plural; the thanksgivings in both letters; unusual redundancies ; use of hyper compounds ; use of kyrios to refer to Christ and theos for God; use of pistis to refer to someone’s “faithfulness,” ; use of vocative adelphoi (“brothers and sisters”)