ramifications? This essay explores potential sources for the way the Hebrews author employs faith language. We shall look in particular at the use of πίστις as faith terminology in Philo of Alexandria and in the writings of Flavius Josephus. We shall pay attention to the affinity of the use of faith terminology elsewhere in the Greek scriptures (Septuagint and New Testament), as well as to the related concept of ’emunah as it appears in the Hebrew Scriptures. A quick
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