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The Letter to the Hebrews in Social-Scientific Perspective is unavailable, but you can change that!

A lot of mystery surrounds the book of Hebrews, especially regarding its authorship, date, and audience. However, by asking the right kind of questions, one can move beyond the impasses typical of historical investigation of the book of Hebrews. In this volume, David deSilva explores Hebrews through a social-scientific lens, asking one of the most important questions when interpreting letters and...

the likelihood that the author addresses a mixed congregation of Jewish and Gentile Christians.14 One other typical concern of social-scientific inquiry involves the social level of the members of a particular group. Hebrews provides further evidence against the older, Marxian assumption that early Christianity recruited “mainly from the labouring and burdened, the members of the lowest strata of the people,” consisting of “slaves and emancipated slaves, of poor people deprived of all rights.”15
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