Raising up a Faithful Priest: Community and Priesthood in Biblical Theology

by Richard D. Nelson

Publisher:

Westminster John Knox

, 1993

Overview

This thought-provoking study reviews priesthood from a theological perspective and explores the theological value and significance of priests in Old and New Testaments. Richard D. Nelson reviews biblical concepts of priesthood and provides guidance and data for exegetes and systematic theologians as they work out the implications of the Bible’s view of priesthood.

Contents

Top Highlights

“It has been about a century since the appearance of the two magisterial studies that still provide the foundation for modern theological thought on the topic of priesthood: Wolf W. Baudissin, Die Geschichte des alttestamentlichen Priesterthums (Leipzig: Hirzel, 1889) and Albinus Van Hoonacker, Le sacerdoce levitique dans le loi et dans l’histoire des Hebreux (London: Williams & Norgate, 1899).¹ With the exception of some shorter treatments in periodicals and in the standard Old Testament theologies, scholarly literature in this century has focused almost entirely on the problems of historical reconstruction. The theology of priesthood in the Bible has taken a back seat to its history.” (Page ix)

“Second, Jesus’ priesthood is superior because it relates to a better covenant, the one promised by God in Jer. 31:31–34 and brought into being through Jesus’” (Page 147)

“Ritual thus provided a sort of homeostatic balance that kept the cosmos and society in harmony and wholeness.” (Page 36)

Product Details

• Title: Raising up a Faithful Priest: Community and Priesthood in Biblical Theology
• Author: Richard D. Nelson
• Edition: First edition
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox
• Print Publication Date: 1993
• Logos Release Date: 2018
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Priests, Jewish › Biblical teaching; Jesus Christ › Priesthood--Biblical teaching; Priesthood › Biblical teaching; Bible › Theology
• ISBNs: 0664254373, 9780664254377
• Resource ID: LLS:RSNGFTHFLBBLCTH
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:47:32Z

About Richard D. Nelson

Richard D. Nelson is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and W. J. A. Power Professor of Biblical Hebrew and Old Testament Interpretation at the Perkins School of Theology. He is the author of numerous books on Old Testament history and interpretation.