Tyndale New Testament Commentaries

Volume 15

Series Editor: Eckhard J. Schnabel

Consulting Editor: Nicholas Perrin

Hebrews

An Introduction and Commentary

David G. Peterson

An imprint of InterVarsity Press

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First published 2020

UK ISBN: 978-1-78359-962-2 (print)

UK ISBN: 978-1-78359-963-9 (digital)

US ISBN: 978-0-8308-4299-5 (print)

US ISBN: 978-0-8308-5072-3 (digital)

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CONTENTS

General preface

Author’s preface

Abbreviations

Select bibliography

Introduction

1. Character and style

2. Structure and argument

3. Occasion and purpose

4. Destination and date of composition

5. Authorship and authority

6. Theology

Analysis

Commentary

GENERAL PREFACE

The Tyndale Commentaries have been a flagship series for evangelical readers of the Bible for over sixty years. Both the original New Testament volumes (1956–1974) as well as the new commentaries (1983–2003) rightly established themselves as a point of first reference for those who wanted more than is usually offered in a one-volume Bible commentary, without requiring the technical skills in Greek and in Jewish and Graeco-Roman ...