The Essence of a Spiritual House: Misunderstanding Metaphor and the Question of Supersessionism in 1 Peter.
This article interrogates the standard interpretation of οἶκος πνευματικός (“spiritual house”) in 1 Pet 2:5 as an ecclesial replacement for the Jerusalem temple. I first scrutinize the ways in which this metaphor has prejudiced New Testament scholars to misconstrue community-as-temple metaphors in t...
| Published in: | Journal of Biblical Literature Vol. 139; no. 2; pp. 409 - 426 |
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2020
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