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Word Biblical Commentary, Volume 47A: Hebrews 1–8 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Winner of Christianity Today’s 1993 Critic’s Choice Award, this commentary provides an interpretation of the book of Hebrews in conversation with the rapidly growing body of scholarly literature. Acknowledging that many issues such as authorship and provenance remain open, William Lane examines the evidence available and makes a compelling case for his reading of the book and its historical...

distinguished by style and form (and in the case of 2:1–4, by diction) from the unit of exposition. It is the presupposition of this commentary that in Hebrews parenesis takes precedence over thesis in expressing the writer’s purpose. Argumentation serves exhortation. Hebrews is a pastorally oriented sermon whose goal is given expression in the parenetic sections of the discourse. In a striking descriptive phrase appended to the homily, the writer characterizes the whole discourse as parenesis or
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