A CLOUD OF WITNESSES

The Theology of Hebrews in its Ancient Contexts

Edited by

Richard Bauckham

Daniel Driver

Trevor Hart

Nathan MacDonald

Copyright © Richard Bauckham, Daniel Driver, Trevor Hart, Nathan MacDonald and contributors, 2008

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ISBN-13: HB: 978-0-567-033-88-8

LIBRARY OF NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES

387

formerly the 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

Contents

Abbreviations

List of Contributors

Introduction

Nathan MacDonald

1. Hidden Stories in Hebrews: Cosmology and Theology

Jon Laansma

2. The Structure of Hebrews: A Word of Exhortation in Light of the Day of Atonement

Paul David Landgraf

3. The Eschatological World Already Subjected to the Son: The Οἰκουμένη of Hebrews 1.6 and the Son’s enthronement

Ardel B. Caneday

4. Christos as Pistos: The Faith(fulness) of Jesus in the Epistle to the Hebrews

Todd D. Still

5. The Passion: Reconsidering Hebrews 5:7–8

Christopher Richardson

6. ‘If Another Priest Arises’: Jesus’ Resurrection and the High Priestly Christology of Hebrews

David M. Moffitt

7. Pioneer And Perfecter: Joshua Traditions and the Christology of Hebrews

Bryan J. Whitfield

8. ‘But We See Jesus’: The Relationship Between the Son of Man in Hebrews 2:6 and 2:9 and the Implications for English Translations

Craig L. Blomberg

9. Hebrews 7–10 and the Transformation of the Law

Barry C. Joslin

10. The New Covenant and Christian Identity in Hebrews

Peter Gräbe

11. Melchizedek without Speculation: Hebrews 7:1–25 and Genesis 14:17–24

Gareth Lee Cockerill

12. ‘The True Tent Which the Lord Has Pitched’: Balaam’s Oracles in Second Temple Judaism and in Hebrews

Philip A. F. Church

13. Pistis and ’Emunah: The Nature of Faith in the Epistle to the Hebrews

Dennis R. Lindsay

14. The Anti-Imperial Rhetoric of Hebrews 1:3: χαρακτήρ as a ‘Double-Edged Sword’

Steven Muir

15. Hebrews 5:7, Jesus’ Prayer on the Mount of Olives and Jewish Christianity: Hearing Early Christian Voices in Canonical and Apocryphal Texts

Claire Clivaz

16. The Universal and Eternal Validity of Jesus’ Priestly Sacrifice: The Epistle to the Hebrews in Support of Origen’s Theory of Apokatastasis

Ilaria L. E. Ramelli

Index of Authors

Index of Biblical ...