Category:Hebrews (text)
The Letter to the Hebrews (see Online Text) is a New Testament document.
Overview
Some notes
- (1) The nature of the Son
“Jesus… though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And being found in human form, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death—even death on a cross. Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on hearth and under the earth…” (Phil 1:6-10).
“The Son… is the reflection of God’s glory and the exact imprint of God’s very being… When he had made purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs” (Hebrews 1:1-4).
- (2) The Son of Man is superior to the Angels
“What is Adam [=the ancestor of humanity] that you are mindful of him,
or the son of man (ben Adam) [=humanity] that you care for him?
You have made him only a little lower that the angels:
You have crowned him with glory and honor,
Subjecting all things under his feet”
(Ps 8:4-5; quoted in Hebrews 2:6-8)
But for Christians Jesus is the Son of Man (ben Adam). Therefore for the author of the Letter the Psalm is not about Adam or humanity but about Jesus…
“Jesus… for a little while was made lower than the angels; now he is crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death” (Hebrews 2:9)
- (3) Jesus is the Melchizedek who had to come.
2 Enoch: The Miraculous Birth of Melchisedek through the Holy Spirit
Matthew-Luke: Jesus is the foretold Son of David born miraculously through the Holy Spirit.
Hebrews: Jesus is the foretold High Priest according to the Order of Melchisedek
- (4) The “old” and the “new” priesthood
“When there is a change in the priesthood, there is necessarily a change in the law as well… There is, on the one hand, the abrogation of an earlier commandment because it was weak and ineffectual… there is, on the other hand, the introduction of a better hope” (7:12,18-19). “If the first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no need to look for a second one” (8:7). “In speaking of a new covenant he has made the first one obsolete” (8:13).
The point is that the “old” Jewish priesthood (from Levi and Aaron) has ended and has been replaced by the “new” eschatological priesthood of Melchisedek-Jesus. [We are AFTER the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem]
References
- Hebrews, Epistle to the / Eric F. Mason / In: The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism (2010 Collins / Harlow), dictionary, 716-718
- / [[]] / In: The Anchor Bible Dictionary (1992 Freedman), dictionary,
External links
Pages in category "Hebrews (text)"
The following 73 pages are in this category, out of 73 total.
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- Commentarii in epistolam ad Hebraeos (1549 Calvin), book
- Commentarius in Epistolam apostolicam ad Hebraeos (1568 Hemmingsen), book
- In Epistolam B. Pauli Apostoli ad Hebraeos commentarii (1598 Ribera/Acosta), book
- Exercitations on the Epistle to the Hebrews also concerning the Messiah (1668 Owen), book
- Exercitations on the Epistle to the Hebrews concerning the Priesthood of Christ (1674 Owen), book
- A Continuation of the Exposition of the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews (1680 Owen), book
- A Continuation of the Exposition of the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews Compleating that Elaborate Work (1684 Owen), book
- Commentarius in Acta Apostolorum et in Epistolas ad Romanos et ad Hebraeos (1711 Limborch), book
- La secte de Melchisédek et l'Epitre aux Hébreux (1882-83 Friedländer), essay
- The Order of Melchizedek (1893 Fradenburgh), essay
- The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews (Greek Text) (1888 Farrar), book
- The Melchizedek or Heavenly Priesthood of Our Lord (1888 Milligan), essay
- Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews (1889 Kendrick), book
- The Epistle to the Hebrews (1910 Wickham), book
- Der Brief an die Hebräer (1913 Riggenbach), book
- The Epistle to the Hebrews (Greek Text) (1917 Nairne), book
- Der Hebräerbrief (1918 Appel), book
- Das Geschichtliche Melchisedech-Bild und seine Bedeutung im Hebräerbriefe (1920 Jérôme), book
- A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews (1924 Moffatt), book
- The Epistle to the Hebrews (1933 Robinson), book
- L'Epistola agli Ebrei (1952 Teodorico), book
- Der Brief an die Hebräer (1953 Kuss), book
- The Epistle to the Hebrews (1955 Neil), book
- Hebrealaiskirje (Letter to the Hebrews / 1956 Gyllenberg), book (Finnish)
- The Epistle to the Hebrews (1960 Hewitt), book
- The Epistle to the Hebrews (1964 Bruce), book
- A Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews (1964 Montefiore), book
- A Letter to Hebrews (1967 Davies), novel
- Lettera agli Ebrei (1967 Zedda), book
- Starotestamentowy kult ofiarniczy w liscie do hebrajczyków a w manuskryptach i dokumentach z Qumran (The Old Testament Sacrificial Cult in the Letter to the Hebrews and the Manuscripts and Documents from Qumran / 1970 Skwarczewski), book
- Philo and the Epistle to the Hebrews (1970 Williamson), book
- To the Hebrews (1972 Buchanan), book
- The Intermediary World and Patterns of Perfection in Philo and Hebrew (1975 Day), book
- The Melchizedek Tradition (1976 Horton), book
- Hebrews, James, 1 and 2 Peter, Jude, Revelation (1977 Fuller), edited volume
- A Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews (1977 Hughes), book
- L'Épître aux Hébreux (1977 Spicq), book
- Hebrews and Hermeneutics (1979 Hughes), book
- Hebrews (1980 Casey), book
- Hebrews and Perfection (1982 Peterson), book
- The Letter to the Hebrews (1983 Guthrie), book
- Die Theologie des Hebräerbrief (1987 Rissi), book
- The Epistle to the Hebrews: A Commentary (1989 Attridge), book
- Hebräerbrief (1989 März), book
- The Epistle to the Hebrews: Its Background of Thought (1990 Hurst), book
- Hebrews (1991 Lane), book
- Covenant and Sacrifice in the Letter to the Hebrews (1992 Dunnill), book
- The Epistle to the Hebrews (1993 Ellingworth), book
- Omelie e catechesi cristiane nel I secolo (1994 Marconi), book
- The Melchizedekian Priesthood (1995 Balla), book
- 希伯來書 (Hebrews / 1995 Fung), book (Chinese)
- Alle origini dell'omiletica cristiana: la Lettera agli Ebrei (1995 Garuti), book
- Hebrews and James (1996 Gench), book
- The Different Functions of a Similar Melchizedek Tradition in 2 Enoch and the Epistle to the Hebrews (1997 Gieschen), essay
- Hebrews (1997 Long), book
- Melchisedek e l'angelologia nell'Epistola agli Ebrei e a Qumran (1997 Manzi), book
- Η προς Εβραίους επιστολή (Letter to the Hebrews / 1999 Gratseas), book (Modern Greek)
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- Hebrews (2001 Koester), book
- Reading Hebrews and James (2002 Isaacs), book
- Situating the Letter to the Hebrews in Early Christian History (2002 Isaak), book
- Une lecture de l'épître aux Hébreux (2003 Grelot), book
- A Feminist Companion to the Catholic Epistles and Hebrews (2004 Levine, Robbins), edited volume
- Hebrews: Contemporary Methods - New Insights (2005 Gelardini), edited volume
- What Are They Saying about the Letter to the Hebrews? (2005 Harrington), book
- Lettera agli Ebrei (2005 Marcheselli-Casale), book
- Ιωβηλαίο έτος, Μελχισεδέκ και η προς Εβραίους Επιστολή (2006 Goutzioudis), book
- Hebrews (2006 Johnson), book
- Cosmology and Eschatology in Hebrews (2007 Schenck), book
- La sofferenza educatrice nella Lettera agli Ebrei (2007 Urso), book
- You Are a Priest Forever: Second Temple Jewish Messianism and the Priestly Christology of the Epistle to the Hebrews (2008 Mason), book
- Essays on John and Hebrews (2010 Attridge), book
- Hebrews and the Temple: Attitudes to the Temple in Second Temple Judaism and in Hebrews (2017 Church), book
- Jesus’ Death and Heavenly Offering in Hebrews (2019 Jamieson), book
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