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Raising up a Faithful Priest: Community and Priesthood in Biblical Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

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.

Jesus is a priest “like Melchizedek” (7:15). From an exegesis of Genesis 14 and Ps. 110:4, the author seeks to demonstrate that Christ’s priesthood “according to the succession of Melchizedek” surpasses the temple priesthood. Without any explicitly expressed genealogy or beginning or end of life, Melchizedek shares with Jesus a perpetual priesthood (7:3, 8, 24–25; the “forever” of Ps. 110:4). This contrasts with the temporary nature of the Levitical priests (7:23–24). Even Jesus’ lack of Levitical
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