Hebrews in contexts / edited by Gabriella Gelardini, Harold W. Attridge. [print]

Introduction / Gabriella Gelardini, Harold W. Attridge -- Part 1. Jewish contexts. Midrash in Hebrews/ Hebrews as Midrash / Daniel Boyarin ; Jewish and Christian theology from the Hebrew Bible : the concept of rest and temple in the Targumim, Hebrews, and the Old Testament / Daniel E. Kim ; Moses as priest and apostle in Hebrews 3:1-6 / John Lierman ; Hebrews and Second Temple Jewish traditions on the origins of Angels / Eric F. Mason -- Part 2. Greco-Roman and empire-critical contexts. "You have become dull of hearing" : Hebrews 5:11 and the rhetoric of religious entrepreneurs / Fritz Graf ; Starting sacrifice in the beyond : Flavian innovations in the concept of priesthood and their reflections in the treatist "To the Hebrews" / Jorg Rupke ; "For here we have no lasting city" (Heb 13:14a) : Flavian iconography, Roman imperial sacrificial iconography, and the Epistle to the Hebrews / Harry O. Maier ; The God of Peace and his victorious king : Hebrews 13:20-21 in its Roman imperial context / Jason A. Whitlark.

Part 3. Spatial contexts. Critical spatiality and the Book of Hebrews / Jon L. Berquist ; The body of Jesus outside the eternal city : mapping ritual space in the Epistle to the Hebrews / Ellen Bradshaw Aitken ; Charting "outside the camp" with Edward W. Soja : critical spatiality and Hebrews 13 / Gabriella Gelardini ; An archaeology of Hebrews' Tabernacle imagery / Kenneth Schenck ; Serving in the Tabernacle in Heaven : sacred space, Jesus's high-priestly sacrifice, and Hebrews' analogical theology / David M. Moffitt -- Part 4. Reception-historical and hermeneutical contexts. Jesus the incarnate high priest : intracanonical readings of Hebrews and John / Harold W. Attridge ; "In many and various ways" : theological interpretation of Hebrews in the modern period / Craig R. Koester ; Stumbling block or stepping stone? : on the reception history of Hebrews 8:13 / Jesper Svartvik ; Ritual and religion, sacrifice and supersession : a utopian reading of Hebrews / Pamela Eisenbaum ; Hebrews and the discourse of Judeophobia / Ekkehard W. Stegemann, Wolfgang Stegemann.

Charting "Outside the Camp" with Edward W. Soja: Critical Spatiality and Hebrews 13An Archaeology of Hebrews' Tabernacle Imagery; Serving in the Tabernacle in Heaven: Sacred Space, Jesus's High-Priestly Sacrifice, and Hebrews'Analogical Theology; Part 4 Reception-Historical and Hermeneutical Contexts; Jesus the Incarnate High Priest: Intracanonical Readings of Hebrews and John; "In Many and Various Ways": Theological Interpretation of Hebrews in the Modern Period; Stumbling Block or Stepping Stone? On the Reception History of Hebrews 8:13.

Ritual and Religion, Sacrifice and Supersession: A Utopian Reading of HebrewsHebrews and the Discourse of Judeophobia; Index of Modern Authors; Index of Scripture and Other Ancient Sources.

Scholars of Hebrews have repeatedly echoed the almost proverbial saying that the book appears to its reader as a "Melchizedekian being without genealogy". For such scholars the aphorism identified prominent traits of Hebrews, its enigma, its otherness, its marginality. Although Franz Overbeck might unintentionally have stimulated such correlations, they do not represent what his dictum originally meant. Writing during the high noon of historicism in 1880, Overbeck lamented a lack of historical context, one that he had deduced on the basis of flawed presuppositions of the ideological frameworks prevalent of his time. His assertion made an impact, and consequently Hebrews was not only "othered" within New Testament scholarship, its context was neglected and by some, even judged as irrelevant altogether. Understandably, the neglect created a deficit keenly felt by more recent scholarship, which has developed a particular interest in Hebrews' contexts. Hebrews in Contexts , edited by Gabriella Gelardini and Harold W. Attridge, is an expression of this interest. It gathers authors who explore extensively on Hebrews' relations to other early traditions and texts (Jewish, Hellenistic, and Roman) in order to map Hebrews' historical, cultural, and religious identity in greater, and perhaps surprising detail.

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