Anthony Giambrone, OP, offers a biblical theology of the priesthood rooted in the Old and New Testaments.  
  
"This beautifully written volume manages to pack a very sophisticated set of interpretive proposals into a book that a general theological reader can understand and enjoy. Most modern books on the priesthood either deny the linkage between the Bible and Catholic practice or smuggle in a variety of apologetic readings in an attempt to justify a predetermined position. With characteristic honesty and brilliance, Giambrone provides a much-needed alternative: an exegetically sound grounding of the office of the priesthood in the biblical tradition."  
\--__Gary A. Anderson__, University of Notre Dame  
  
"This is the kind of exegesis I have been waiting for since I became a student of the sacred page. Fr. Giambrone masterfully fulfills the mandate of Dei Verbum 12, effortlessly integrating his outstanding historical scholarship into a balanced, fully canonical Christian hermeneutic. The fruit is a profoundly biblical theology of the priesthood that will illuminate exegetes, fundamental theologians, and dogmaticians alike."  
\--__Nina Heereman,__ St. Patrick's Seminary &amp; University  
  
"A splendid work of unimpeachable scholarship from an international biblical scholar. Every seminarian should be given this book to prosper his grace to be a priest. Every priest should read this book to fortify his vocation. Every bishop should buy this book. Additionally, Fr. Giambrone's easy-to-read presentation of biblical themes will help Christ's lay faithful to understand the divinely ordained place that the Catholic priest occupies in the Church."  
\--__Romanus Cessario, OP__, Ave Maria University  
  
__Praise for the Catholic Biblical Theology of the Sacraments Series__   
"This series gives to students of the Bible a deeply enriched view of the mesh of relationships within and between biblical texts that are brought to light by the liturgy of the sacraments."  
\--__Jennifer Grillo__, University of Notre Dame  
  
"This series points the way to the theological and exegetical future."  
\--__Matthew Levering__, Mundelein Seminary

__Anthony Giambrone, OP__ (PhD, University of Notre Dame), is vice president and professor of New Testament at the École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem. He also teaches at the University of Notre Dame and at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. In addition to numerous scholarly and popular articles, he is the author of A Quest for the Historical Christ: Scientia Christi and the Modern Study of Jesus.

This series on the seven Sacraments provides readers with a deeper appreciation of God's gifts and call in the Sacraments through a renewed encounter with God's Word.  
  
In this volume, a leading Catholic scholar offers a biblical theology of the priesthood rooted in the Old and New Testaments. Half a millennium after the Protestant Reformation and in the midst of an ongoing clerical crisis in the Catholic Church, this book presents a comprehensive biblical vision and defense of the sacramental priesthood and an informed theological response to the problem of priestly sin. It gives expression to the ministerial priesthood's biblically grounded, sacramental share in the sacrificial ministry of Jesus Christ.  
  
Series editors are Timothy C. Gray and John Sehorn. Gray is president of the Augustine Institute, which has one million subscribers to its online content channel, Formed.org. Gray and Sehorn teach at the Augustine Institute Graduate School of Theology, which prepares students for Christian mission through on-campus and distance education programs.

In this addition to the Catholic Biblical Theology of the Sacraments series, a leading Catholic scholar offers a biblical theology of the priesthood rooted in the Old and New Testaments.

__Contents__ List of Sidebars  
Series Preface  
__Part 1: Introduction__ 1. Priesthood and the Project of Catholic Exegesis  
Hermeneutical Interlude: A Catholic Alternative  
__Part 2: "The Sons of Aaron in Their Splendor"__ 2. "The Glory of the Lord Appeared" (Lev. 9:23): Priesthood as Theophany  
Excursus 1: Purity and Holiness  
Excursus 2: Levi, Levites, and the Priesthood  
3. "Like People, like Priest" (Hosea 4:9): Priestly Sin and the Prophetic Critique  
Excursus 3: Corruption of Priests and Temple  
Excursus 4: The Priesthood of Eli and Sons at Shiloh  
4. "I Will Clothe You with Festal Apparel" (Zech. 3:4): The Promise of a New Priesthood  
Excursus 5: David's Royal Priesthood  
Excursus 6: Transfiguration of the Temple and the Future of Theophany  
__Part 3: "The Order of Melchizedek"__ 5. "Feed My Sheep" (John 21:17): The Inauguration of New Covenant Ordo  
Excursus 7: Israel's Last Prophet  
Excursus 8: The Language of Pastoral Order  
6. "A Spiritual Temple, a Holy Priesthood" (1 Pet. 2:5): Priestly Sacrifice and the New Law  
Excursus 9: The Laying On of Hands  
Excursus 10: "Mediator of a New Covenant" (Heb. 12:24): Priests in the Letter to the Hebrews  
7. Conclusion: Jesus as Charismatic Founder of a Hierarchical Church  
Suggested Resources  
Indexes

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