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In his commentary on the Letter to the Hebrews, New Testament scholar Edgar McKnight explores two aspects of Hebrews as covenant—an appeal to the perfection and finality of Jesus Christ and an exhortation to faith based on that appeal. He also highlights the occasionally counterintuitive interpretative strategies of the author of this letter. This approach frames the author of Hebrews’ treatment...

James is one of the most theologically (as distinct from Christologically) dense and robust writings in the New Testament. James presents God as one, the very model of integrity (2:19). God is the Creator, the unchanging “Father of lights” (1:17), the giver of every good gift. God does not struggle with evil and is not the source of the evil against which the righteous struggle (1:13); rather evil takes root in self-centered human desires. God’s will is to give birth to a new creation through
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