Hebrews in Contexts

412 Pages·2016·2.12 MB·English

by  Gabriella Gelardini

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in New Testament scholarship, its context was neglected and by some,
even judged as irrelevant altogether. Understandably, the neglect created
a deficit keenly felt by more recent scholarship, which has developed a
particular interest in Hebrews’ contexts. Hebrews in Contexts, edited
by Gabriella Gelardini and Harold W. Attridge, is an expression of this
interest. It gathers authors who explore extensively on Hebrews’ relations
to other early traditions and texts (Jewish, Hellenistic, and Roman) in
order to map Hebrews’ historical, cultural, and religious identity in
greater, and perhaps surprising detail.
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(Heb 13:7)
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Contents
Abbreviations x
List of Contributors xix
Introduction 1
Gabriella Gelardini and Harold W. Attridge
Part 1
Jewish Contexts
Midrash in Hebrews / Hebrews as Midrash 15
Daniel Boyarin
Jewish and Christian Theology from the Hebrew Bible: The Concept of Rest
and Temple in the Targumim, Hebrews, and the Old Testament 31
Daniel E. Kim
Moses as Priest and Apostle in Hebrews 3:1–6 47
John Lierman
Hebrews and Second Temple Jewish Traditions on the Origins of
Angels 63
Eric F. Mason
Part 2
Greco-Roman and Empire-Critical Contexts
“You Have Become Dull of Hearing”: Hebrews 5:11 and the Rhetoric of
Religious Entrepreneurs 97
Fritz Graf
Starting Sacrifice in the Beyond: Flavian Innovations in the Concept of
Priesthood and Their Reflections in the Treatise “To the Hebrews” 109
Jörg Rüpke
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“For Here We Have No Lasting City” (Heb 13:14a): Flavian Iconography,
Roman Imperial Sacrificial Iconography, and the Epistle to the
Hebrews 133
Harry O. Maier
The God of Peace and His Victorious King: Hebrews 13:20–21 in Its Roman
Imperial Context 155
Jason A. Whitlark
Part 3
Spatial Contexts
Critical Spatiality and the Book of Hebrews 181
Jon L. Berquist
The Body of Jesus Outside the Eternal City: Mapping Ritual Space in the
Epistle to the Hebrews 194
Ellen Bradshaw Aitken
Charting “Outside the Camp” with Edward W. Soja: Critical Spatiality and
Hebrews 13 210
Gabriella Gelardini
An Archaeology of Hebrews’ Tabernacle Imagery 238
Kenneth Schenck
Serving in the Tabernacle in Heaven: Sacred Space, Jesus’s High-Priestly
Sacrifice, and Hebrews’ Analogical Theology 259
David M. Moffitt
Part 4
Reception-Historical and Hermeneutical Contexts
Jesus the Incarnate High Priest: Intracanonical Readings of Hebrews
and John 283
Harold W. Attridge
contents ix
“In Many and Various Ways”: Theological Interpretation of Hebrews in the
Modern Period 299
Craig R. Koester
Stumbling Block or Stepping Stone? On the Reception History of
Hebrews 8:13 316
Jesper Svartvik
Ritual and Religion, Sacrifice and Supersession: A Utopian Reading
of Hebrews 343
Pamela Eisenbaum
Hebrews and the Discourse of Judeophobia 357
Ekkehard W. Stegemann and Wolfgang Stegemann
Index of Modern Authors 371
Index of Scripture and Other Ancient Sources 376