A perfect priest : studies in the Letter to the Hebrews / Albert Vanhoye ; edited and translated by Nicholas J. Moore and Richard J. Ounsworth. [print]

Preface --Introduction : 'A Perfect Priest' : The Letter to the Hebrews in the Scholarship of Albert Vanhoye ; Albert Vanhoye : Life and Career ; Central Features of Vanhoyes Work ; Rationale and Contents of This Volume ; Priesthood and Sacrifice ; Christ as High Priest in Hebrews 2.17-18 ; A New Concept ; The Characteristics of the High Priest ; Expiation? ; A Help in Trials ; The Place and Meaning of Hebrews 5.1-10 ; The relationship of Heb 5.1-10 to its immediate context (4.15-16) ; The relationship between Heb 5.1-10 and the preceding passages (Heb 3-4) ; The relationship between Heb 5.1-10 and the following passages (Heb 7-10) ; The teleiMsis of Christ : Chief Point of Hebrews Priestly Christology ; The teleiMsis of Christ : 'chief point'? ; The teleiMsis of Christ according to Heb 8.1-2 ; Rhetorical function of Heb 8.1-2 and the extent of the section ; Reformulation of the concept of priestly teleiMsis ; Existential priestly teleiMsis ; Relational priestly teleiMsis --Conclusion ; 'By the Greater and More Perfect Tent' (Heb 9.11) ; Text and Context ; Interpretative Positions ; The Theme of the New Temple ; The Tent : Body of the Risen Christ --Conclusion ; Eternal Spirit and Sacrificial Fire in Hebrews 9.14 ; I ; II ; III ; IV ; V ; Virgin Islands; VII ; VIII ; Earthly Sanctuary and Heavenly Sanctuary in the Letter to the Hebrews ; Gods House or Christs House (3.2-6) ; Gods 'Rest' (3.11-4.11) ; The Sanctuaries in the Central Section (8.1-9.28) ; The True Tent (8.2; 9.11) --Conclusion ; Historical Recollection and Theological Creativity in the Letter to the Hebrews ; The Priestly Cult and the Death of Jesus ; Covenant Sacrifice and the Death of Jesus ; Thematic Studies ; The Law in the Letter to the Hebrews ; Polemic against the law in Heb 7.11-28 ; Change of law in the new 'dispensation' (Heb 8.1 : 9.28)? ; The prefigurative value of certain commandments (Heb 9.18-23) ; The powerlessness of the law and the efficacy of the will of God (Heb 10.1-18) ; New approaches in a new situation (Heb 10.19-29) --Conclusion ; The God of the New Covenant in the Letter to the Hebrews ; God, first and last ; God establishes mediation ; Questioning the First Covenant ; Establishment of the new covenant ; Revelation of God through the new covenant --Conclusion ; Universal Salvation through Christ and the Validity of the Old Covenant ; 'The old covenant' in 2 Cor 3.14 : a written text ; Permanent and provisional aspects of the Old Testament ; Permanent validity of the covenant promise given to Abraham (Gal 3.15-18) ; Discrediting the legal covenant of Sinai (Gal 4.21-31) ; Other Pauline texts on the 'covenants' with Israel ; Conclusions on the Pauline position ; 'The first covenant' destined to disappear (Heb 8.13) --Conclusion ; Christ as Re-creator of Humanity and Restorer of Human Rights according to the Letter to the Hebrews ; Christ fulfils the human vocation (Heb 2.5-9) ; The path to fulfilment (Heb 2.10) ; Redemptive solidarity ; Human rights in the New Covenant --Conclusion ; Exegetical Studies ; State of the question ; The oikoumen of the Lord ; Long Journey or Imminent Access? : The Biblical Context of Hebrews 3.7-4.11 ; Allusions in the Hebrew Psalm ; Allusions in the Greek version ; The Perspective of Hebrews ; Exegetical Insight ; Links with the rest of the Letter --Conclusion ; Hebrews 6.7-8 and the Rabbinic Mashal ; The Faith of Jesus? : On Hebrews 12.2 : 'Jesus, Author and Perfecter of Faith' ; The Literary Question of Hebrews 13.1-6 ; Composition of Hebrews 13.1-6 ; Situation of Hebrews 13.1-6 in the Letter as a Whole --Conclusion --Bibliography ; Works by Albert Vanhoye ; Other Works Cited --Acknowledgements --Index of Ancient Sources --Index of Modern Authors --Index of Subjects.

"Albert Vanhoye is one of the most significant French biblical scholars of recent times. This volume presents, for the first time in English translation, sixteen of his essays on the Letter to the Hebrews, with an emphasis on the key themes of priesthood and sacrifice."-- Back cover.

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Translated from the French.