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    Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible: Hebrews
    Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible: Hebrews
    Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible: Hebrews
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    Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible: Hebrews

    By Anthony C. Thiselton

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    This extract from the Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible provides Thiselton's introduction to and concise commentary on Hebrews. The Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible presents, in nontechnical language, the best of modern scholarship on each book of the Bible, including the Apocrypha. Reader-friendly commentary complements succinct summaries of each section of the text and will be valuable to scholars, students, and general readers.
     
    Rather than attempt a verse-by-verse analysis, these volumes work from larger sense units, highlighting the place of each passage within the overarching biblical story. Commentators focus on the genre of each text—parable, prophetic oracle, legal code, and so on—interpreting within the historical and literary context.
     
    The volumes also address major issues within each biblical book—including the range of possible interpretations—and refer readers to the best resources for further discussions.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEerdmans
    Release dateApr 13, 2021
    ISBN9781467454599
    Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible: Hebrews
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    Anthony C. Thiselton

      Anthony C. Thiselton (1937–2023) was professor of Christian theology at the University of Nottingham, England. His many books include A Shorter Guide to the Holy Spirit, Systematic Theology, and Life after Death: A New Approach to the Last Things.

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      Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible - Anthony C. Thiselton

      Hebrews

      Anthony C. Thiselton

      INTRODUCTION

      Authorship and Place within the New Testament

      Two quotations concerning Hebrews are endlessly repeated. In the early part of the third century Origen wrote, Who it was who wrote the epistle, [only] God knows the truth (Eusebius Hist. Eccl. 6.25.14). A modern writer adds, Hebrews is in many respects the riddle of the NT. Nothing is known of its origin.… It stands … ‘without father, without mother, without genealogy’ … like … Melchizedek … (Scott 1923: 1). The anonymity remains all the more surprising since without doubt the author of Hebrews ranks with Paul and the Fourth Gospel as one of the three great theologians of the NT (Lindars 1991:

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