WRITTEN TO SERVE

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Chris Keith is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity and Director of the Centre for the SocialScientific Study of the Bible at St. Marys University College Twickenham UK. He is the author of The Pericope Adulterae the Gospel of John and the Literacy of Jesus a winner of the 2010 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise and Jesus Literacy: Scribal Culture and the Teacher from Galilee. He is also the coeditor of Jesus among Friends and Enemies: A Historical and Literary Introduction to Jesus in the Gospels and was recently named a 2012 Society of Biblical Literature Regional Scholar.Benjamin Sargent is Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall Oxford UKOffers a current alternative to other texts on the use of Scripture in 1 PeterExplores the use of Scripture in 1 Peter and from this its relation to an historical and literary backgroundDemonstrates how other studies of 1 Peter have missed the most significant point: that its purpose is in elevating the communities to which the letters were writtenBenjamin Sargent is Vicar of Bransgore and Hinton Admiral Hampshire UK.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 1.1012 offers a śhermeneutic providing an insight into how Scripture is interpreted in the letter. Sargent also argues that the relation of 1.1012 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 1.1012 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 1.1012 may be seen to suggest a narrative of profound discontinuity in which the community in the present is elevated above Gods people of the past.An exploration of the employment of Scripture in 1 Peter which argues that its use is dominated by a salvationhistorical narrative emphasizing discontinuity with Israels past.ContentsIntroductionChapter 1. 1 Peter 1.1012: An Hermeneutical Statement?Chapter 2. Formal Citation of Scripture in 1 PeterChapter 3. Allusion to Scripture in 1 PeterChapter 4. The Exegetical Background to the Use of Scripture in 1 PeterChapter 5. 1 Peter and Theological Interpretation of ScriptureConclusionIndex

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