This volume presents a dialogue between historians, exegetes, and theologians on the background and key themes of the atonement in Hebrews. Presenting a range of differing perspectives and contributing to the renewed conversation between biblical and theological scholarship, the argument is structured in two parts: contexts and themes within Hebrews.
Focusing on atonement not only in the Old Testament but also in the Greco-Roman world, and touching on themes such as sacrifice, plight and solution, and faith, these contributions shed light on the concept of the atonement in a directly scriptural way. The whole is a definitive collection of studies on the atonement in Hebrews that will be of service well beyond the confines of Hebrews’ specialists, a collection as important for what it says about the atonement and the 21st century church as for what it says about Hebrews.
Table of Contents:
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgments
Part One: Contexts
Chapter 1: Atonement in Ancient Israel: The Whole Burnt Offering as Central to Israel’s Cult - L. Michael Morales, Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, USA
Chapter 2: Putting Words in His Mouth: The Son Speaks in Hebrews - Karen H. Jobes, Wheaton College and Graduate School, USA
Chapter 3: The Origins of Hebrews’ High Priest Christology: A Conundrum Revisited - Nicholas Perrin, Wheaton College, USA
Chapter 4: Jesus’s Atoning Sacrifice in Hebrews and Atonement of Sin in the Greco-Roman World - Eckhard J. Schnabel, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, USA
Chapter 5: The Epistle to the Hebrews in Patristic Trinitarian and Christological Doctrine - Khaled Anatolios, University of Notre Dame, USA
Part Two: Themes
Chapter 6: “Mediator of a New Covenant”: Atonement and Christology in Hebrews - Daniel J. Treier, Wheaton College Graduate School, USA
Chapter 7: Blood, Death, and Sacrifice in the Epistle to the Hebrews According to Thomas Aquinas - Matthew Levering, Mundelein Seminary, USA
Chapter 8: Living and Active: The Exalted Prophet in the Epistle to the Hebrews - Michael Allen, Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando, USA
Chapter 9: It Is Not Finished: Jesus’s Perpetual Atoning Work as the Heavenly High Priest in Hebrews - David M. Moffitt, University of St Andrews, UK
Chapter 10: Plight and Solution: Hebrews and the Invitation to Rest - Mark S. Gignilliat, Beeson Divinity School, USA
Chapter 11: Hebrews and the Jewish Law - Matthew Thiessen, McMaster University, Canada
Chapter 12: Promises to the Son: Covenant and Atonement in Hebrews - Amy Peeler, Wheaton College, USA
Chapter 13: Time and Atonement in Hebrews - George H. Guthrie, Regent College, Canada
Chapter 14: Space and Atonement in Hebrews - Cynthia L. Westfall, McMaster Divinity College, Canada
Chapter 15: Faith in Hebrews and Its Relationship to Soteriology: An Interpretation in the Context of the Concept of Fides in Roman Culture - Gabriella Gelardini, Nord University, Norway
Chapter 16: The Church and Atonement in Hebrews - Harold W. Attridge, Yale Divinity School, USA
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