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Hebrews is written to Jewish converts, who, because of persecutions, as well as fear and doubts about their Christian faith, are tempted to revert back to traditional Judaism and its Temple-centered worship. This epistle aims to keep these Jewish Christians in the fold by stressing the failure of the Old Covenant; that the rituals of sacrificing animals has been replaced by the superiority of the...

Though a carefully constructed and polished homily, Hebrews is not an abstraction. It is written, in fact, in the midst of white-hot racial and religious tension on the eve of a war that would visit the greatest calamity on the Jewish nation until the Holocaust: the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple. It is necessary to understand this in order to appreciate what was at stake for the author and readers of Hebrews. As we read in Acts 6:1, the Church faced
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