After a very careful and fair overview of the arguments for the priority of Jude and 2 Peter’s dependence thereon, including critiquing some of the assumptions for this theory, Wasserman, however, admits:
. . . I must conclude that the
balance of probabilities clearly favors the priority of Jude. The plausibility
of this conclusion is confirmed by an appeal to traditional criteria, as is
evident both from the current analysis, but, more significantly, from the history
of scholarly research in the area. (Tommy Wasserman, The Epistle of Jude: Its
Text and Transmission [Coniectanae Biblica New Testament Series 43;
Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 2006], 98; see the full
discussion on pp. 73-98)
