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Letters and Homilies for Jewish Christians: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary on Hebrews, James and Jude is unavailable, but you can change that!

Letters and Homilies for Jewish Christians is the second of three volumes extending Ben Witherington's innovative socio-rhetorical analysis of New Testament books to the latter-Pauline and non-Pauline corpora. By dividing the volumes according to the socioreligious contexts for which they were written, Witherington sheds fresh light on the documents, their provenance, character and importance. ...

(Heb 11:40), and God is said to have prepared a city for them (Heb 11:16). Our author does not, however, comment on the fate of contemporary non-Christian Jews, though if he was influenced by Paul’s argument in Romans he may well have been hopeful about them. What one cannot say is that our author thinks that anyone can be saved apart from the work of Christ or faith in him. Our author even speaks of Moses suffering for Christ (Heb 11:26), so committed is he to taking up the heritage of Israel into
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