Peter’s first epistle is actually the second oldest text in the NT; only the Gospel is Matthew is older. Peter wrote this epistle from Babylon and not from Rome, as most commentators think, and in this volume, we will in fact see that Peter never set foot in Rome, as tradition says. Commentators have struggled with the epistle written by James, Jesus’ half-brother, because it appears to teach salvation by works and not salvation by faith and grace, as we see in Paul’s epistles. Martin Luther called it “an epistle of straw” and relegated James to the end of the NT canonical list, with Hebrews, Jude and Revelation. But we shall see that the apparent contradiction between Paul’s epistles and James’ epistle on the subject of faith and works is just apparent. Most commentators do not believe that Paul is the author of Hebrews, but we shall see that it bears all the hallmarks of Paul, who wrote this treatise to Christian Jews. But he did it anonymously because he also wanted unbelieving Jews, who hated him, to read it, and he may have used Luke, who was a Greek, as his amanuensis. In this section, we will also learn who the mysterious Melchizedek was. Peter’s second letter was written twenty years after his first, and unlike his first letter, which Peter dictated to Silvanus, Peter wrote his second letter himself. This is all it takes to explain the differences in style between these two letters, which Bible critics refuse to believe come from the same author. In this volume, I shall also argue that Josephus provides information that enables us to determine where and how Peter died. The epistle of Jude, who like James was Jesus half-brother, is probably the second latest text in the NT, written shortly after the outbreak of the Jewish-Roman war in 66 CE. Many have wondered who the false teachers were that Jude is warning the Christians about in his polemic letter, but Jude reveals their identity with a single word.