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Written to Serve: The Use of Scripture in 1 Peter

Name: Written to Serve: The Use of Scripture in 1 Peter
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Author: Benjamin Sargent
ISBN: 9780567672452

by Benjamin Sargent

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240 pages
Publisher: T&T Clark
15.6 x 23.4 x 1.3 cm

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For students of New Testament hermeneutics.

Explains how 1 Peter uses Old Testament prophecy.

Helps you see Scripture's role in the community.

A clear analysis of how the First Letter of Peter interprets and applies the Old Testament.

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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.