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Dictionary of the Later New Testament & Its Developments is unavailable, but you can change that!

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. ...

example, the repetition of the verb “to see” and the noun “unbelief” in Hebrews 3:12 and 19 marks Hebrews 3:12–19 as a discrete literary unit of commentary on the biblical text found in Hebrews 3:7–11. The purpose and plan of Hebrews is integrally related to the literary structure of the document. The key issue is the distinctive role assigned by the writer to the expository and hortatory sections of the homily. How is the writer’s essential purpose served by the blocks of exposition
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