Temple, Exile and Identity in 1 Peter

Informationen zum Autor Andrew M. Mbuvi is Visiting NEH Chair in Humanities and Associate Professor in the Religious Studies Department at Albright College, Pennsylvania, USA. Zusammenfassung Explores the temple imagery in the epistle of "1 Peter" and focuses on the use of cultic language in constituting the fresh identity of the Petrine community. This work contends that temple imagery in "1 Peter" undergirds the entire epistle. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. "Exile And Restoration Of Israel" As A Background For Reading 1 Peter 3. Temple, Exile, And Identity In Second Temple Literature4. Analysis Of Temple Imagery In 1 Peter5. Implications And Conclusion

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• Authors: Andrew M Mbuvi, Andrew M. Mbuvi, Andrew Mutua Mbuvi, MBUVI ANDREW M
• Publisher: T. & T. Clark Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.05.2007
• EAN: 9780567031426
• ISBN: 978-0-567-03142-6
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Library of New Testament Studi; Library of New Testament Studi; The Library of New Testament Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Practical theology; RELIGION / Biblical Meditations / General, Bible readings, selections & meditations, Bible readings, selections and meditations