argument and, moreover, the intrinsic difficulty of its structure. I suspect one possible explanation for the neglect is that the idea falls somewhere on the boundaries of these two larger domains of research—Hebrews’ use of the Old Testament and structure—and attention in both places has to this point, at least, been directed elsewhere,3 whether to the author’s exegetical method and hermeneutic or to his use of rhetorical devices and classical rhetoric.4 Figure 1. Overlapping Domains of Hebrews’