Perspectives for Reading the Epistle to the Hebrews as a Constructive Contribution to Jewish-Christian Dialogue
The Epistle to the Hebrews, with its strong antithesis between the old and new covenants, has often been accused of supporting anti-Jewish polemics or even of displaying them itself. Hebrews is thus considered an obstacle to Jewish-Christian dialogue. This contribution aims to further the dialogue....
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2022
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Neotestamentica
Year: 2022, Volume: 56, Issue: 2, Pages: 253-274 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Interfaith dialogue
/ Divine covenant
/ Judaism
/ Christianity
/ Eschatology
/ Bible. Römerbrief 9-11
/ Bible. Hebräerbrief 11,39-40
/ Israel
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| IxTheo Classification: | AX Inter-religious relations BH Judaism CA Christianity HC New Testament |
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| Summary: | The Epistle to the Hebrews, with its strong antithesis between the old and new covenants, has often been accused of supporting anti-Jewish polemics or even of displaying them itself. Hebrews is thus considered an obstacle to Jewish-Christian dialogue. This contribution aims to further the dialogue. It offers hermeneutical and exegetical perspectives to formulate a positive eschatological view of "Israel" from the overall theological witness of Hebrews in analogy to Romans 9-11, without abandoning the Christ-centred soteriology of the letter. These perspectives promote the idea of the one "believing people of God" in combination with the eschatological idea in Hebrews 11:39-40, that all believers will together enter their eschatological completion. |
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| ISSN: | 2518-4628 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Neotestamentica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/neo.2022.a900313 |