TY - JOUR
T1 - "Noah, the preacher of (God's) righteousness"
T2 - the argument from Scripture in 2 Peter 2:5 and 9
AU - Hafemann, Scott Jack
PY - 2014/4/1
Y1 - 2014/4/1
N2 - In the argument of 2 Pet 2:4-9, the force of the reference to “Noah” in V. 5 as a δικαιοσύνης κήρυξ is not immediately clear, all the more so since in the biblical narcative Noah never preaches and in 2 Peter no righteous behavior is explicitly associated with him. The purpose of this essay is to suggest, however, that the description of Noah as a “preacher of righteousness” does reflect its biblical and epistolatory righteousness of God/Christ revealed in redemption as well as referring to the righteousness of those whom, like Noah, God delivers. Read in this way, it contributes a rhetorically powerful argument from Scripture to the argument of 2 Peter.
AB - In the argument of 2 Pet 2:4-9, the force of the reference to “Noah” in V. 5 as a δικαιοσύνης κήρυξ is not immediately clear, all the more so since in the biblical narcative Noah never preaches and in 2 Peter no righteous behavior is explicitly associated with him. The purpose of this essay is to suggest, however, that the description of Noah as a “preacher of righteousness” does reflect its biblical and epistolatory righteousness of God/Christ revealed in redemption as well as referring to the righteousness of those whom, like Noah, God delivers. Read in this way, it contributes a rhetorically powerful argument from Scripture to the argument of 2 Peter.
UR - https://www.catholicbiblical.org/catholic-biblical-quarterly-cbq
M3 - Article
SN - 0008-7912
VL - 76
SP - 306
EP - 320
JO - Catholic Biblical Quarterly
JF - Catholic Biblical Quarterly
IS - 2
ER -