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Peter in the New Testament - the non-sectarian truth?,
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This review is from: Peter in the New Testament: A Collaborative Assessment by Protestant and Roman Catholic Scholars (Paperback)
Much of the best recent biblical scholarship comes from the USA. This short, approachable study of Peter's place in the NT has a decided edge, in that it is a collaboration between U.S. Roman Catholic and Lutheran experts. It attempts to bring biblical research methods to a figure who has caused divisiveness between the Reformation and Catholic traditions. I used the study to help me understand one of the kernel disagreements - Matthew 16:16. I quote an extract to show how it brings light and (for this Anglican priest) resolution to that text:
An Aramaic substratum has been recognised in Mt's Greek. "You are petros" and "this petra" suggests a Greek play on the two words; in Aramaic they are identical: "You are Kephâ' and upon this kephâ' I will build". `This leaves no doubt that the rock on which the church was to be built was Peter.' I am now reading the other chapters with similar results - their clarity is infectious. |
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Peter in the New Testament;: A collaborative assessment by Protestant and Roman Catholic scholars by Raymond E. Brown (Paperback - 1973)
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