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The third of IVP’s critically acclaimed series of dictionaries of the New Testament provides focused study on the often-neglected portions of the New Testament: Acts, Hebrews, the General Epistles and Revelation. Furthermore, its scope goes beyond the life of the New Testament church to include the work of the apostolic fathers and early Christianity up through the middle of the second century. ...

No NT document so extensively reflects upon the new covenant as does Hebrews. Although the book is full of covenantal imagery and terminology, it is Hebrews’s central section (Heb 4:14–10:15) that highlights the relationship between the old and new covenants. Hebrews’s central section can be broken into two halves: the first half argues that Jesus was appointed a superior, eternal high priest after the order of Melchizedek (Heb 5:1–10; 7:1–28), while the second half (Heb 8:1–10:16)