Peter in the New Testament

by Raymond E. Brown, John Henry Paul Reumann, Karl P. Donfried

Book Overview

The role of Peter has remained one of the most sensitive and divisive areas of New Testament inquiry, particularly because of its implications for the position of the papacy in Christendom. Now, under... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806614013
• ISBN13: 9780806614014
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
• Length: 181 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Peter in the New Testament - the non-sectarian truth?

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.