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  • Hebrews 12:1-13 portrays the suffering of its readers with two images: an athl... Hebrews 12:1-13 portrays the suffering of its readers with two images: an athletic contest and God s fatherly discipline. N. Clayton Croy places this important passage in the context of Jewish and Greco-Roman traditions. He argues that the idea of... more
  • Hebrews 12:1-13 portrays the suffering of its readers with two images: an athl... Hebrews 12:1-13 portrays the suffering of its readers with two images: an athletic contest and God s fatherly discipline. N. Clayton Croy places this important passage in the context of Jewish and Greco-Roman traditions. He argues that the idea of... more
  • Hebrews 12:1-13 portrays the suffering of its readers with two images: an athl... Hebrews 12:1-13 portrays the suffering of its readers with two images: an athletic contest and God s fatherly discipline. N. Clayton Croy places this important passage in the context of Jewish and Greco-Roman traditions. He argues that the idea of... more
  • This work is a comprehensive treatment of one of the most intriguing questions... This work is a comprehensive treatment of one of the most intriguing questions of modern New Testament study: what kind of person could have produced the mysterious document known today as the Epistle to the Hebrews? While other studies of Hebrews... more
  • This book offers a thesis about the interests underlying the Epistle. Dr Hughe... This book offers a thesis about the interests underlying the Epistle. Dr Hughes argues that the major concern of the author has been to achieve a theological understanding of the relationship between the now out-moded forms and institutions of Old... more
  • The concept of perfection is central to the Epistle to the Hebrews but what is... The concept of perfection is central to the Epistle to the Hebrews but what is the precise meaning to be attached to the perfecting of Christ and the perfecting of Christians? Is teleioun to be understood in a cultic or ethical sense or with... more
  • The concept of perfection is central to the Epistle to the Hebrews but what is... The concept of perfection is central to the Epistle to the Hebrews but what is the precise meaning to be attached to the perfecting of Christ and the perfecting of Christians? Is teleioun to be understood in a cultic or ethical sense or with... more
  • A study of the hymnic and liturgical material in the New Testament which descr... A study of the hymnic and liturgical material in the New Testament which describes Christ s nature and person. Professor Sanders analyzes the hymns in detail and finds in them a common mythological pattern. He traces its origin to a particular and... more
  • Rhetorical criticism seeks to understand and comment on the way texts function... Rhetorical criticism seeks to understand and comment on the way texts function in their social and cultural contexts. Holloway puts Paul s letter in the context of ancient theories and literary practices of consolation and argues that Paul wrote to... more
  • Among the problems which Hebrews poses for interpretation its use of sacrifici... Among the problems which Hebrews poses for interpretation its use of sacrificial terminology must cause it to seem remote and obscure. Although the recent work of social anthropologists on the nature of religious systems has been applied by Old... more
  • Among the problems which Hebrews poses for interpretation its use of sacrifici... Among the problems which Hebrews poses for interpretation its use of sacrificial terminology must cause it to seem remote and obscure. Although the recent work of social anthropologists on the nature of religious systems has been applied by Old... more
  • In this book Will N. Timmins provides a close rereading of Romans 7 within its... In this book Will N. Timmins provides a close rereading of Romans 7 within its literary-argumentative context and offers a fresh and compelling solution to the identity of the I in this text. Challenging existing paradigms which fail to provide both... more
  • In this book Nathan C. Johnson offers the first full-scale study of David trad... In this book Nathan C. Johnson offers the first full-scale study of David traditions in the Gospel of Matthew s story of Jesus s death. He offers a solution to the tension between Matthew s assertion that Jesus is the Davidic messiah and his... more
  • Stephen Ahearne-Kroll examines the literary interaction between the Gospel of ... Stephen Ahearne-Kroll examines the literary interaction between the Gospel of Mark s passion narrative and four Psalms of Individual Lament evoked in it. These four psalms depict a David who challenges God s role in his suffering who searches for... more
  • Inventing Hebrews examines a perennial topic in the study of the Letter to the... Inventing Hebrews examines a perennial topic in the study of the Letter to the Hebrews its structure and purpose. Michael Wade Martin and Jason A. Whitlark undertake at thorough synthesis of the ancient theory of invention and arrangement providing... more
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