Resurrection in 1 Peter

(avg. read time: 14–29 mins.)

In my planned series of books on resurrection in the NT, the most challenging one to write in terms of working with the primary texts (as opposed to the secondary scholarship on the texts) will probably be the volume on the Catholic/General Epistles. This section features most of the shortest books in the NT, and there is a general lack of explicit resurrection terminology (as we have already seen with James). And even in the absence of that terminology, indirect links with theology of resurrection are relatively few. The exception to these general characteristics of the General Epistles is 1 Peter. I am expecting this will be a later volume in the series if it comes to fruition, but to give my readers an extended preview of what is to come, I follow the kind of analysis I did for John. That is, I begin with examining the cases where explicit resurrection terminology appears in 1 Peter as my anchor points, after which I chart other concepts connected with resurrection elsewhere in 1 Peter.