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 Author Name: Johnson L T
Title: NTL - New Testament Library commentary series - Hebrews
Publisher: Westminster John Knox
ISBN: 0664221181 / 9780664221188
ISBN: 9780664221188
[Number in stock: 4] [Number on order: 4]
Hebrews challenges our imagination to enter a universe that is not defined by quantitative measure but by qualitative difference, to ponder a world in which the unseen is more real, more powerful, and more attractive than that which can be seen and touched and counted. In a word, Hebrews proposes as real a world that most of us consider imaginary.
similarly, Hebrews places before us a Jesus who is in turn compelling and repelling, familiar and alien. No writing in the New Testament pulls together so dynamically the tensions within the early Christian confession of Jesus - his humanity and divinity, his crucifixion as well as his exaltation, his slain body and his obedient faith - in the single dramatic image of Jesus the great high priest. It is a magnificent portrayal. But it is also an image that requires an appreciation of religious sacrifice, and such appreciation is virtually absent from contemporary Christianity.
Finally, Hebrews is remarkably stringent in its demands on readers. It calls for unqualified commitment, unflagging perseverance, and the willingness to suffer as a consequence of faith. Indeed, Hebrews suggests that for Christians to enter into full maturity as God's children, they must be transformed by the suffering that comes from obedience in precisely the same manner as Jesus. For present-day Christians who make moral ambiguity and tolerance for wrongdoing the mark of maturity, and who consider suffering as virtually equivalent to evil, Hebrews is strong medicine, bitter to shallow even if salutary.
-from the introduction
Luke Timothy Johnson's Hebrews: A Commentary in the New Testament Library offers a thorough and careful commentary on the complicated book of Hebrews, showing its meaning within the context of ancient culture and the theological development of the early church. Written by one of the leading New Testament scholars of the present generation, this commentary offers remarkable insights into the challenging text's Hellenistic, Roman, and Jewish contexts.
The New Testament Library
...offers authoritative commentary on every book and major aspect of the New Testament. The Commentaries in this series provide fresh translations based on the best available ancient manuscripts, critical portrayals of the historical world in which the books were created, careful attention to their literary design, and a theological perspective exposition of the biblical text. The contributors are scholars of international standing. The editorial board consists of C. Clifton Black, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey, and John T. Carroll, Union Theological Seminary, and Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond, Virginia.
Luke Timothy Johnson is R. W. Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at Candler School of Theological, Emory University. He is the author of more than twenty books on the New Testament and is one of the world's best-known scholars on early Christianity.
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