Written to serve
Subtitle: the use of scripture in 1 Peter
By: Benjamin Sargent
Series: Library of New Testament studies -- 547; T & T Clark library of biblical studies; Library of New Testament studies -- 547.; T & T Clark library of biblical studies
Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London, UK; New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780567660855; 9780567660848
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation; Bible
Description: The use of Scripture in 1 Peter has been subject to much extensive analysis in the last thirty years. In Written to Serve Benjamin Sargent offers an up to date and comprehensive analysis of how 1 Pet 1.10-12 offers a 'hermeneutic,' providing an insight into how Scripture is interpreted in the letter. Sargent also argues that the relation of 1.10-12 has been misunderstood. Rather than offering a Christological hermeneutic with a focus on the suffering and glories of Christ, Sargent asserts that the primary importance of 1.10-12 is its orientation of the prophetic witness towards the eschatological community as an act of service. Similarly, rather than offering a theological narrative of continuity between Israel and Christian communities, 1.10-12 may be seen to suggest a narrative of profound discontinuity in which the community in the present is elevated above God's people of the past. (Publisher).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1 Peter 1.10-12: a Hermeneutical Statement?; title: Formal Citation of Scripture in 1 Peter; title: Allusion to Scripture in 1 Peter; title: The Exegetical Background to the Use of Scripture in 1 Peter; title: 1 Peter and Theological Interpretation of Scripture.