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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. ...

Schröger’s study details at least four quotations where our author cites a version no longer available (Heb 1:6; 10:30; 12:5; 13:5).41 Many of the A/B variations in Hebrews are purely stylistic and not substantive. And our author appears to have modified the text either to avoid ambiguity or for the sake of emphasis; he does not simply play fast and loose with the text. It would be very surprising if he used a version exactly like any of today’s extant copies. It may well be that his Vorlage goes
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