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Faithful to the End: An Introduction to Hebrews through Revelation is unavailable, but you can change that!

In classroom and scholarly study, the Gospels, Acts, and the Pauline letters receive far more attention than does the so-called “end” of the New Testament: Hebrews; James; 1 and 2 Peter; 1, 2, and 3 John; Jude; and Revelation. Faithful to the End: An Introduction to Hebrews Through Revelation offers a careful study of these latter biblical letters, closely examining each one’s authorship and...

continuity in and fulfillment of the divine purpose; the same God who sent the prophets has now sent the Son. What’s more, the function of 1:1–4 is introductory, not polemical. These verses serve a similar function as the prologue to the fourth Gospel. In addition, prophetēs occurs only twice in the epistle—in 1:1 and 11:32, hardly constituting a polemic of any sort against distorted eschatological notions. A related factor that speaks against the Qumran line of interpretation is that allusions to
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