Book Written: Baker simply gives a date of 64 A.D. while HC explains that the letter has to be written after Paul traveled through Asia Minor in the 60s, but before the 90s because there's no mention of Roman officials charging Christians with disobedience to the emperor.
Time Period/Setting: Peter is writing to Christians in five Roman provinces in Asia Minor: Asia, Bithynia, Cappadocia, Galatia and Pontus. HC explains that these Gentile Christians faced considerable animosity towards them on the part of the Greco-Roman society in which they found themselves.
Title: Written by Peter, the apostle and first bishop of Rome though HC calls that into question by saying that the fine quality of the Greek may mean otherwise. HC also says (2 Peter) that Peter was martyred in 64/5 A.D. so HC would conclusively be saying that this letter couldn't have been written by Peter if in fact the letter was penned between 70 A.D. and 90 A.D. The format is considered to be an actual letter.
Peter is urging his readers to be faithful and good servants of Christ and not to revert to their earlier, heathen ways. Just to make things perfectly clear I suppose, Peter enjoins his readers not to consort with those lousy Gentiles whom he denounces as immoral low-lifes in Ch. 4, 3-5. Such riff-raff lives in "licentiousness, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing and lawless idolatry." Can't get much worse than that!
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