Bibliography of Commentaries, Special Studies, and Monographs on Jude

Bibliography of Commentaries, Special Studies, and Monographs on Jude¹

Preachers desiring to study Jude can be overwhelmed by the wealth of material at hand. All resources, however, are not created equal. What follows is a semi-comprehensive bibliography of commentaries, articles, monographs, and other works on Jude compiled by David L. Allen.

Commentaries

Allison, Gray B. Now Unto Him. Jackson, MS: C&S Printing, 1964.

Barclay, William. The Letters of John and Jude. Daily Study Bible Series. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1956. (Excellent on illustrations and Greek word studies.)

Barnes, Albert. Notes on the New Testament. London: Blackie and Son, 1900.

*Bateman, Herb. Translating Jude Clause by Clause: Exegetical Guide. n.p.: Cyber-Center for Biblical Studies, 2015.

*Bauckham, Richard. Jude, 2 Peter. Word Biblical Commentary 50. Waco, TX: Word, 1983.

Baxter, J. Sidlow. Explore the Book. Vol. 6, Acts to Revelation. London: Marshall, Morgan & Scott, 1965.

Bigg, Charles. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistles of St. Peter and St. Jude, 2nd ed. International Critical Commentary. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1961.

Blum, Edwin. Jude. Vol. 12, The Expositor’s Bible Commentary. Edited by Frank Gaebelein. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1981.

Callan, Terrance D., and Duane F. Watson. First and Second Peter. Paideia: Commentaries on the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2012.

Calvin, John. A Harmony of the Gospels Matthew, Mark, and Luke. James and Jude. Calvin’s New Testament Commentaries. Translated by A.W. Morrison. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1975.

Cedar, Paul A. James, 1, 2 Peter, Jude. Communicator’s Commentary Series. Waco, TX: Word, 1984.

Charles, J. Daryl. “2 Peter, Jude.” In Expositor’s Bible Commentary, rev. ed. Edited by D. E. Garland and T. Longman III, 357–411, 539–69. Vol. 13. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2006.

Coder, S. Maxwell. Jude: The Acts of the Apostates. Chicago: Moody, 1958. Collins, John. “Contending for the Faith ( Jude 3).” In Sermons of the Great

Ejection. Edited by Iain Hamish Murray, 55–84. n.p., 1662; reprint,

Edinburgh: The Banner of Truth Trust, 2012. Craddock, Fred B. First and Second Peter and Jude. Westminster Bible Companion. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1995.

Cranfield, C. E. B. I & II Peter and Jude. Torch Bible Commentaries.
London: SCM, 1960.

*Davids, Peter H. The Letters of Second Peter and Jude. Pillar New Testament Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006.

Donelson, Lewis R. I & II Peter and Jude. New Testament Library.
Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2010.

González, Catherine Gunsalus. 1 and 2 Peter and Jude. Belief: A Theological Commentary on the Bible. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2011.

Green, Christopher, and R. C. Lucas. The Message of 2 Peter and Jude.
Bible Speaks Today. Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 1995.

*Green, Michael. The Second Epistle of Peter and the Epistle of Jude, 2nd ed. Tyndale New Testament Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1990.

*Green, Gene L. Jude & 2 Peter. Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2008.

*Greenlee, J. Harold. An Exegetical Summary of Jude. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1999.

Harvey, Robert, and Philip H. Towner. 2 Peter & Jude. New Testament Commentary. Downers Grove: IVP, 2009.

Hawkins, O. S. In Sheep’s Clothing. Neptune, NJ: Loizeaux, 1994. Helm, David R. 1 & 2 Peter and Jude. Wheaton: Crossway, 2008.

*Hiebert, D. Edmond. Second Peter and Jude: An Expositional Commentary.
Greenville, SC: Unusual Publications, 1989.

Hillyer, Norman. New International Biblical Commentary. Vol. 16, 1 and 2 Peter, Jude. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1992.

Ironside, H. A. Exposition of the Epistle of Jude, rev. ed. New York: Loizeaux Brothers, 1900.

James, Montague Rhodes. The Second Epistle General of Peter and the General Epistle of Jude. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1912.

Jenkyn, William. An Exposition upon the Epistle of Jude. London: Christ’s Church, 1653.

Kelcy, Raymond. The Letters of Peter and Jude. The Living Word Commentary. Austin: R. B. Sweet, 1972.

Kelly, J. N. D. A Commentary on the Epistles of Peter and Jude. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1969.

Kistemaker, Simon. Exposition of the Epistles of Peter and of the Epistle of Jude. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1987.

Knight, Jonathan. 2 Peter and Jude. New Testament Guides. Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Academic, 1995.

Kraftchick, Steven J. Jude and Second Peter. Abingdon New Testament Commentaries. Nashville: Abingdon, 2002.

Lange, John Peter. Lange’s Commentary on the Holy Scripture. Vol. 12,
James–Revelation. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1960.

Lawlor, George L. Translation and Exposition of the Epistle of Jude. Nutley, NJ: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1972.

Leaney, A. R. C. The Letters of Peter and Jude. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967.

Lenski, Richard C. H. The Interpretation of the Epistles of St. Peter, St. John and St. Jude. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1966.

Luther, Martin. The Catholic Epistles. Vol. 30, Luther’s Works. Edited by Jaroslav Pelikan. Saint Louis: Concordia, 1967. Commentary on the Epistles of Peter and Jude. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1982.

MacArthur, John, Beware the Pretenders. Wheaton: Victor, 1980.

 1 and 2 Peter and Jude. MacArthur New Testament Commentary
30. Chicago: Moody, 2005.

MacDonald, William. II Peter and Jude: The Christian and Apostasy.
Wheaton: Harold Shaw, 1972.

*Maclaren, Alexander. Expositions of Holy Scripture. Vol. 11, Epistles of Peter, Epistles of John, Jude, Revelation, General Index. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1959.

Manton, Thomas. An Exposition on the Epistle of Jude. London: Banner of Truth Trust, 1978; reprint, Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1988.

*Mayor, Joseph B. The Epistle of St. Jude and the Second Epistle of St. Peter.

New York: Macmillan, 1907.

Mayor, J. B. The General Epistle of Jude. Vol. 5, The Expositor’s Greek Testament. Edited by W. Robertson Nicoll. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1897–1910.

Moffatt, James. The General Epistles: James, Peter, and Judas. New York: Harper and Brothers., 1928.

*Moo, Douglas J. 2 Peter, Jude. NIV Application Commentary. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996.

Morgan, G. Campbell. Living Messages of the Books of the Bible. Vol. 2.
New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1912.

Neyrey, J. H. 2 Peter, and Jude: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. Anchor Bible 37C. New York: Doubleday, 1993.

Pentecost, Edward C. “Jude.” In The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures by Dallas Seminary Faculty: New Testament Edition. Edited by John F. Walvoord and Roy B. Zuck, 917–24. Wheaton: Victor, 1983.

Pettingill, William L. Simple Studies in the Epistles of James, First and Second Peter, First Second and Third John and Jude. Findlay, OH: Fundamental Truth, n.d.

*Phillips, John, Exploring the Epistle of Jude. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2004. Plummer, Alfred. The General Epistles of St. James and St. Jude. Expositor’s Bible. New York: Hodder & Stoughton, 1908.

Reese, Ruth A. 2 Peter and Jude. Two Horizons New Testament Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007.

Richard, Earl J. Reading 1 Peter, Jude, and 2 Peter: A Literary and Theological Commentary. Reading the New Testament. Macon, GA: Smyth & Helwys, 2000.

Robertson, A. T. Word Pictures in the New Testament. Vol. 6, General Epistles and Revelation of John. Nashville: Broadman, 1933.

Saarinen, Risto. The Pastoral Epistles with Philemon & Jude. Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible. Grand Rapids: Brazos, 2008.

Sadler, Michael Ferrebee. The General Epistles of James, Peter, John, and Jude, 2nd ed. London: George Bell & Sons, 1895.

Salmond, S. D. F. “Jude.” In The Pulpit Commentary. Vol. 50, Peter, John, Jude Edited by H. D. M. Spence and Joseph S. Exell. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1961.

*Schreiner, Thomas R. 1, 2 Peter, Jude. New American Commentary 37. Nashville: B&H, 2003.

Senior, Donald, and Daniel J. Harrington. 1 Peter, Jude, and 2 Peter. Sacra Pagina 15. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical, 2003.

Sidebottom, E. M. James, Jude, and 2 Peter. London: Nelson, 1967.

Thompson, R. Duane. Jude. Vol. 6, The Wesleyan Bible Commentary. Edited by Charles W. Carter. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1969.

Vincent, Marvin R. Word Studies in the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1946.

Ward, John W. C. The General Epistles of St. Peter and St. Jude.

Westminster Commentaries. London: Methuen & Co., 1934.

Ward, Ronald A. The Epistles of John and Jude: A Study Manual. Shield Bible Study Series. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1965.

*Wiersbe, Warren. Be Alert. Wheaton: Victor, 1984. The Bible Exposition Commentary. Vol. 2. Wheaton: Victor, 1989.

Witherington, Ben, III. Letters and Homilies for Jewish Christians. A Socio- Rhetorical Commentary on Hebrews, James, and Jude. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2007.

Wolff, Richard. A Commentary on the Epistle of Jude. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1960.

Woods, Guy N. Peter, John, Jude. New Testament Commentaries.

Nashville: Gospel Advocate, 1976.

Wuest, Kenneth. In These Last Days: II Peter, I, II, III John, and Jude in the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1954.

Special Studies and Monographs:

Allen, J. S. “A New Possibility for the Three-Clause Format of Jude 22–3.” New Testament Studies 44 (1998): 133–43.

Bartholomä, P. F. “Did Jesus Save the People out of Egypt? A Re- examination of a Textual Problem in Jude 5.” Novum Testamentum 50 (2008): 143–58.

Bauckham, Richard. Jude and the Relatives of Jesus in the Early Church.

Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1990. Chapter 3 includes a revised version of his “The Letter of Jude: An Account of Research” in Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt II.25.5 (1988), 3791–826.

*______. Word Biblical Themes: 2 Peter, Jude. Dallas: Word, 1990.

Birdsall, J. Neville. “The Text of Jude in P⁷².” In Collected Papers in Greek and Georgian Textual Criticism, 73–77. Vol. 3, Texts and Studies: Third Series. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias, 2006.

Brooke, George J. “Torah, Rewritten Torah and the Letter of Jude.” In The Torah in the New Testament: Papers Delivered at the Manchester- Lausanne Seminar of June 2008. Library of New Testament Studies 401. Edited by by M. Tait and P. Oakes, 180–93. New York: Continuum, 2009.

Brosend, William. “The Letter of Jude. A Rhetoric of Excess or an Excess of Rhetoric?” Interpretation 60 (2006): 292–305.

Callan, Terrance. “Use of the Letter of Jude by the Second Letter of Peter.” Biblica 85 (2004): 42–64.

______. “Balaak in the P⁷² Text of Jude 11: A Proposal.” New Testament Studies 55 (2009): 73–82.

Charles, J. Daryl. Literary Strategy in the Epistle of Jude. Scranton: University of Scranton Press, 1993.

______. “‘These’ and ‘Those’: The Use of the Old Testament in the Epistle of Jude.” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 38 (1990): 109–24.

______. “Jude’s Use of Pseudepigraphical Source-Material as Part of a Literary Strategy.” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 37 (1991): 130–45.

______. “Literary Artifice in the Epistle of Jude.” Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche 82 (1991): 106–24.

______. “The Use of Tradition-Material in the Epistle of Jude.” Bulletin for Biblical Research 4 (1994): 1–14

______. “The Angels under Reserve in 2 Peter and Jude.” Bulletin for Biblical Research 15 (2005): 39–48.

Chester, Andrew, and Ralph P. Martin. The Theology of James, Peter, and Jude. New Testament Theology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

DeGraaf, David. “Some Doubts about Doubt: The New Testament Use of Diakrino.” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 48 (2005): 733–55.

Dehandschutter, B. “Pseudo-Cyprian, Jude and Enoch: Some Notes on 1 Enoch 1:9.” In Tradition and Re-Interpretation in Jewish and Early Christian Literature. Edited by J. W. van Henten, 114–20. Leiden: Brill, 1986.

Desjardins, M. “Portrayal of the Dissidents in 2 Peter and Jude: Does it Tell Us More About the ‘Godly’ Than the ‘Ungodly’?” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 30 (1987): 89–102.

Donelson, Lewis R. “Jude as Text with Excess of Context.” In Antiquity and Humanity: Essays on Ancient Religion and Philosophy Presented to Hans Dieter Betz on his 70th Birthday. Edited by M. M. Mitchell and A. Y. Collins, 279–95. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2001.

*Ellis, E. Earl. “Prophecy and Hermeneutic in Jude.” In Prophecy and Hermeneutic in Early Christianity: New Testament Essays, 220–36. Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr & Siebeck. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen Zum Neuen Testament 18. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1978.

Eybers, I. H. “Aspects of the Background of the Letter of Jude.” Neotestamentica 9 (1975): 113–23.

*Fanning, Buist. “A Theology of Peter and Jude” In A Biblical Theology of the New Testament. Edited by Roy B. Zuck, 437–71. Chicago: Moody, 1994.

Flink, Timo. “Reconsidering the Text of Jude 5, 13, 15 and 18.” Filologia Neotestamentaria 20 (2007): 95–125.

Fossum, Jarl. “Kyrios Jesus as the Angel of the Lord in Jude 5-7.” New Testament Studies 33 (1987): 226–43.

Frey, Jörg. “The Epistle of Jude between Judaism and Hellenism.” In The Catholic Epistles and Apostolic Tradition. Edited by K. W. Niebuhr and R. W. Wall, 309–29. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2009.

Gaebelein, Arno. “The Epistle of Jude.” In The Annotated Bible, 4:173–84, Chicago: Moody, 1970.

Gunther, John J. “The Alexandrian Epistle of Jude.” New Testament Studies 30 (1984): 549–62.

Harm, Harry J. “Logic Line in Jude. The Search for Syllogisms in a Hortatory Text.” Occasional Papers in Translation and Textlinguistics 3–4 (1987): 147–72.

Harner, Philip B. What Are They Saying about the Catholic Epistles? Mahwah, NJ: Paulist, 2004.

Hultin, Jeremy F. “Jude’s Citation of 1 Enoch.” In Jewish and Christian Scriptures: The Function of “Canonical” and “Non-Canonical” Religious Texts, Jewish and Christian Texts in Contexts and Related Studies 7. Edited by J. H. Charlesworth and L. M. McDonald, 113–28. New York: Continuum, 2010.

Jones, Peter Russell. The Epistle of Jude as Expounded by the Fathers– Clement of Alexandria, Didymus of Alexandria, the Scholia of Cramer’s Catena, Pseudo-Oecumenius and Bede. Texts and Studies in Religion

89. Lampeter: Edwin Mellen, 2001.

Johnston, Jason. “The Multichiastic Structure of Jude and Its Contribution to the Purpose of the Epistle.” ThM thesis, Dallas Theological Seminary, 2008.

Joseph, Simon J. “‘Seventh from Adam’ ( Jude 1:14–15): Re-examining Enochic Traditions and the Christology of Jude.” Journal of Theological Studies 64 (2013): 463–81.

Joubert, Stephan J. “Language, Ideology, and the Social Context of the Letter of Jude.” Neotestamentica 24 (1990): 335–49.

______. “Persuasion in the Letter of Jude.” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 58 (1995): 75–87.

______. “Facing the Past. Transtextual Relationships and Historical Understanding in the Letter of Jude.” Biblische Zeitschrift 42 (1998): 56–70.

______. “When the Dead are Alive! The Influence of the Living Dead in the Letter of Jude.” Harvard Theological Studies 58 (2002): 576–92.

Kruger, Michael A. “Toutois in Jude 7.” Neotestamentica 27 (1993): 119–32.

Kubo, Sakae. “Jude 22-23: Two Division Form or Three?” In New Testament Textual Criticism, Its Significance for Exegesis: Essays in Honour of Bruce M. Metzger, edited by E. J. Epp and G. D. Fee, 239–53. Oxford: Clarendon, 1981.

Litfin, Duane A. “A Biblical Strategy for Confronting the Cults.” Bibliotheca Sacra 135 (1978): 232–40.

Lyle, Kenneth R., Jr. Ethical Admonition in the Epistle of Jude. Studies in Biblical Literature 4. New York: Peter Lang, 1998.

Mazich, Edward. “‘The Lord Will Come with His Holy Myriads.’ An Investigation of the Linguistic Source of the Citation of 1 Enoch 1, 9 in Jude 14b–15.” Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche 94 (2003): 276–81.

Moore, Nicholoas J. “Is Enoch Also Among the Prophets? The Impact of Jude’s Citation of 1 Enoch on the Reception of Both Texts in the Early Church.” Journal of Theological Studies 64 (2013): 498–515.

Muddiman, John. “The Assumption of Moses and the Epistle of Jude” Moses in Biblical and Extra-Biblical Traditions. Edited by A. Graupner and M. Wolter, 169–80. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 372. New York: de Gruyter, 2007.

Nicklas, T. “Der ‘lebendige Text’ des Neuen Testaments. Der Judasbrief in P⁷² (P. Bodmer VII).” Annali di Storia dell’Esegesi 22 (2005): 203–22.

Osburn, Caroll D. “The Christological Use of 1 Enoch 1.9 in Jude 14, 15.” New Testament Studies 23 (1976–77): 334–41.

______. “The Text of Jude 5.” Biblica 62 (1981): 107–15.

Osburn, Caroll D. “Discourse Analysis and Jewish Apocalyptic in the Epistle of Jude.” In Linguistics and New Testament Interpretation. Essays on Discourse Analysis. Edited by D. A. Black, 287–309. Nashville: Broadman, 1992.

Oyen, G. Van. “Is There a Heresy That Necessitated Jude’s Letter?” In Empsychoi Logoi: Religious Innovations in Antiquity. Studies in Honor of P.W. van der Horst. Edited by A. Houtman, A. de Jong, and M. Misset-van de Weg, 211–26. Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity 73. Boston: Brill, 2008.

Peake, A. S. “Jude, Epistle of.” In Dictionary of the Apostolic Church. Edited by James Hastings, 658–60. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1915.

Reed, J. T., and R. A. Reese. “Verbal Aspect, Discourse Prominence, and the Letter of Jude.” Filología Neotestamentaria 9 (1996): 181–99.

Reese, R. A. Writing Jude: The Reader, the Text and the Author in Constructs of Power and Desire. Biblical Interpretation Series. Leiden: Brill, 2000.

Ross, J. M. “Church Discipline in Jude 22–23.” Expository Times 100 (1989): 297–98.

Rowston, D. E. “The Most Neglected Book in the New Testament.” New Testament Studies 21 (1974): 554–63.

Savelle, Charles. “Canonical and Extracanonical Portraits of Balaam.” Bibliotheca Sacra 166 (2009): 387–404.

Spitaler, P. “Doubt or Dispute ( Jude 9 and 22–23): Rereading a Special New Testament Meaning through the Lens of Internal Evidence.” Biblica 87 (2006): 201–22.

Thurén, L. “Hey Jude! Asking for the Original Situation and Message of a Catholic Epistle.” New Testament Studies 43 (1997): 451–65.

Watson, D. F. Invention, Arrangement, and Style: Rhetorical Criticism of Jude and 2 Peter. Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series. Atlanta: Scholars, 1988.

Webb, R. L. and P. H. Davids, eds. Reading Jude with New Eyes: Methodological Reassessments of the Letter of Jude. Library of New Testament Studies. London: T&T Clark, 2008.

Webb, R. L. “The Eschatology of the Epistle of Jude and Its Rhetorical and Social Functions.” Bulletin for Biblical Research 6 (1996): 139–51.

______. “The Use of ‘Story’ in the Letter of Jude: Rhetorical Strategies of Jude’s Narrative Episodes.” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 31 (2008): 53–87.

* Wendland, E. R. “A Comparative Study of ‘Rhetorical Criticism’, Ancient and Modern, with special reference to the Larger Structure and Function of the Epistle of Jude.” Neotestamentica 28 (1994): 193–228.

Wilkin, Robert. “He Is Able to Keep You From Stumbling! Jude 24.” Grace Evangelical Society News 9 (1994): 2–3.

Winter, S. C. “Jude 22–23: A Note on the Text and Translation.” Harvard Theological Review 87 (1994): 215–22.

Wisse, Frederik. “The Epistle of Jude in the History of Heresiology.” Essays on the Nag Hammadi Texts in Honor of A. Böhlig, Nag Hammadi Studies 3. Edited by M. Krause, 133–43. Leiden: Brill, 1972.

Witmer, John. “The Truth about Error.” Bibliotheca Sacra 124 (1967): 248–53.

Wolthuis, T. R. “Jude and Jewish Traditions.” Calvin Theological Journal 22 (1987): 21–41.

______. “Jude and the Rhetorician. A Dialogue on the Rhetorical Nature of the Epistle of Jude.” Calvin Theological Journal 24 (1989): 126–34.

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