Hebrews 1:10-12 and the renewal of the cosmos
The suggestion that the author of Hebrews is indebted to Philo sometimes leads to the assertion that he has a negative bias against the creation. One text where scholars have detected this bias is Hebrews 1:10-12, quoting Psalm 102:25-27, seemingly to predict the dissolution of the cosmos. The text...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2016]
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Tyndale bulletin
Year: 2016, Volume: 67, Issue: 2, Pages: 269-286 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Psalmen 102,26-28
/ Reception
/ Bible. Hebräerbrief 1,10-12
/ Creation
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| IxTheo Classification: | HA Bible |
| Further subjects: | B
Bible. New Testament
Quotations from Old Testament
B Eschatology Biblical teaching B Bible. Hebrews 1-9 B Bible. Psalms 90-106 B Peer reviewed B Bible. New Testament Relation to Jewish literature, 200 BC-200 AD |
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| Summary: | The suggestion that the author of Hebrews is indebted to Philo sometimes leads to the assertion that he has a negative bias against the creation. One text where scholars have detected this bias is Hebrews 1:10-12, quoting Psalm 102:25-27, seemingly to predict the dissolution of the cosmos. The text is part of a Psalm that predicts the restoration of Zion and the gathering of the nations there to worship, and expresses the confidence that the descendants of the servants of Yahweh will live securely in Yahweh's presence. This makes it unlikely that verses 25-26 predict the dissolution of the cosmos, and exegesis of the verses in question indicates not dissolution, but renewal after the destruction resulting from the exile. Attention to the context of the quotation in Hebrews indicates that dissolution there is also unlikely. The text supports the claim that the exalted Son upholds all things (Heb. 1:3) and sits alongside a discussion of the dominion of humanity over the world to come (2:5-9). A more remote co-text refers to the gathering of the nations to Zion (12:22-24), itself a further echo of the Psalm. The Psalm quotation functions to predict not the dissolution, but the renewal of the decaying cosmos. |
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| ISSN: | 0082-7118 |
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