Written To Serve - The Use of Scripture in 1 Peter

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.>

List of contents

Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. 1 Peter 1.10-12: An Hermeneutical Statement?
Chapter 2. Formal Citation of Scripture in 1 Peter
Chapter 3. Allusion to Scripture in 1 Peter
Chapter 4. The Exegetical Background to the Use of Scripture in 1 Peter
Chapter 5. 1 Peter and Theological Interpretation of Scripture
Conclusion
Index

About the author

Benjamin Sargent is Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, UK

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Sargent, Benjamin (Wycliffe Hall Sargent, Revd Dr Benjamin (Wycliffe Hall Sargent, The Revd Dr Benjamin (Wycliffe Hall Sargent
• Assisted by: Chris Keith (Editor)
• Publisher: T. & T. Clark Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.05.2015
• EAN: 9780567660855
• ISBN: 978-0-567-66085-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Library of New Testament Studi; Criminal Practice Series; The Library of New Testament Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity