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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.

I will raise up for myself a faithful priest who shall act according to what is in my heart and mind. I will build him a sure house, and he shall function before my anointed one forever. (1 Sam. 2:35) 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,
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