CHRISTOLOGY, HERMENEUTICS, AND HEBREWS

Profiles from the History of Interpretation

edited by

Jon C. Laansma

and

Daniel J. Treier

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ISBN: HB: 978-0-567-23859-7

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LIBRARY OF NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES

423

Formerly Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series

Editor

Mark Goodacre

Editorial Board

John M. G. Barclay, Craig Blomberg, R. Alan Culpepper, James D. G. Dunn, Craig A. Evans, Stephen Fowl, Robert Fowler, Simon J. Gathercole, John S. Kloppenborg, Michael Labahn, Robert Wall, Steve Walton, Robert L. Webb, Catrin H. Williams

Ps. 39:10–11 (lxx):

εὐηγγελισάμην δικαιοσύνην ἐν ἐκκλησίᾳ μεγάλῃ·

ἰδοὺ τὰ χείλη μου οὐ μὴ κωλύσω·

κύριε, σὺ ἔγνως.

τὴν δικαιοσύνην σου οὐκ ἔκρυψα ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ μου,

τὴν ἀλήθειάν σου καὶ τὸ σωτήριόν σου εἶπα,

οὐκ ἔκρυψα τὸ ἔλεός σου καὶ τὴν ἀλήθειάν σου ἀπὸ συναγωγῆς πολλῆς

Ps. 40:9–10 (nets):

I told the glad news of righteousness in a great assembly;

look, my lips I will not restrain;

O Lord, you knew.

Your righteousness I did not hide in my heart;

of your truth and your deliverance I spoke;

I did not conceal your mercy

and your truth from a large gathering.

Contents

Abbreviations

List of Contributors

Preface

Hebrews: Yesterday, Today, and Future; An Illustrative Survey, Diagnosis, Prescription

Jon C. Laansma

Christological Ideas in the greek Commentaries on the Epistle to the Hebrews

Frances M. Young

Irenaeus and Hebrews

D. Jeffrey Bingham

‘Clothed with Spiritual Fire’: John Chrysostom’s Homilies on the Letter to Hebrews

Charles Kannengiesser

Thomas Aquinas and the Epistle to the Hebrews: ‘The Excellence of Christ’

Daniel Keating

Christology in Martin Luther’s Lectures on Hebrews

Mickey L. Mattox

The Perfect Priest: Calvin on the Christ of Hebrews

R. Michael Allen

Typology, the Messiah, and John Owen’s Theological Reading of Hebrews

Kelly M. Kapic

The Identity of the Son: Karl Barth’s Exegesis of Hebrews 1:1–4 (and Similar Passages)

Bruce L. McCormack

The Living Word Versus the Proof Text? Hebrews in Modern Systematic Theology

Daniel J. Treier and Christopher Atwood...