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In 1 Peter the audience is addressed as people scattered across different regions, using language of the Jewish exile. This is found in many Jewish texts of the era, including the Psalms of Solomon, where God is asked to gather the scattered of Israel.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
Psalms of Solomon 8:28
Pseudepigrapha, Wisdom and Poetry
26 We have declared Your name just, honored forever; For You are the God of righteousness, judging Israel with discipline. 27 Turn Your mercy toward us, God, and have pity upon us; 28 Gather the scattered people of Israel together, with mercy and goodness; For Your faithfulness is with us. 29 And (though) we have stubbornly refused to obey, yet You are the one who disciplines us; 30 Do not overlook us, our God, so that the nations do not swallow us up as though there were no one to rescue us.
Date: 65–30 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)
1 Peter 1:1
New Testament
1 From Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those temporarily residing abroad (in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, the province of Asia, and Bithynia) who are chosen 2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father by being set apart by the Spirit for obedience and for sprinkling with Jesus Christ’s blood. May grace and peace be yours in full measure! 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he gave us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Date: 80–90 CE (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... Most of the texts that in various ways speak of Israel's continuing exile and oppression also express hopes of redemption and restoration. They foresee the day when the scattered tribes will be regathered, the city of Jerusalem rebuilt and the temple either rebuilt, refurbished or purified ... The author of Enoch's Dream Visions also anticipates the end of the exile: 'All those [sheep] which had been destroyed and dispersed, and all the beasts of the field and the birds of the sky were gathered together in that house; and the LORD of the sheep rejoiced with great joy because they had all become gentle and returned to his house' (1 Enoch 90:33). The author of the Psalms of Solomon (first century B.C.E.) looks forward to the regathering of the twelve tribes of Israel, part of the messianic task ..."
Craig A. Evans, “Jesus & the Continuing Exile of Israel,” in Jesus & the Restoration of Israel: A Critical Assessment of N. T. Wright's Jesus and the Victory of God, ed. Carey C. Newman (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1999), 77–100.
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