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Bibliography: Hebrews

Overview

Donelson, Lewis R. From Hebrews to Revelation: A Theological Introduction. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2000.

Gench, Frances Taylor. Hebrews and James. WBC. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1996.

Gooding, David. An Unshakeable Kingdom: The Letter to the Hebrews for Today. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1989.

Gordon, Robert P. Hebrews. NTR. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000.

Hagner, Donald. Encountering the Book of Hebrews. EBS. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2002.

Harrington, Daniel J. The Letter to the Hebrews. NColBC 11. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2005.

———. What Are They Saying about the Letter to the Hebrews? Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2005.

Isaacs, Marie E. Reading Hebrews and James: A Literary and Theological Commentary. RNTS. Macon, GA: Smyth & Helwys, 2002.

Lincoln, Andrew. Hebrews: A Guide. New York: T&T Clark, 2006.

Lindars, Barnabas. The Theology of the Letter to the Hebrews. NTT. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Pfitzner, Victor C. Hebrews. ANTC. Nashville: Abingdon, 1997.

Schenk, Kenneth. Understanding the Book of Hebrews: The Story Behind the Sermon. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2003.

Trotter, Andrew H., Jr. Interpreting the Epistle to the Hebrews. GNTE. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 1997.

Wright, Tom. Hebrews for Everyone. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2004.

Critical Commentaries

Attridge, Harold W. The Epistle to the Hebrews. Hermeneia. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1989.

Bruce, F. F. The Epistle to the Hebrews. NICNT. Rev. ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1990.

deSilva, David. Perseverance in Gratitude: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary on the Epistle “to the Hebrews.” Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000.

Ellingworth, Paul. The Epistle to the Hebrews: A Commentary on the Greek Text. NIGTC. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1993.

Hughes, Philip E. A Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002.

Johnson, Luke Timothy. Hebrews. NTL. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2006.

Koester, Craig R. Hebrews. AB 36. New York: Doubleday, 2001.

Lane, William L. Hebrews. 2 vols. WBC 47A, 47B. Dallas: Word, 1991.

Long, Thomas G. Hebrews. Interpretation. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1997.

McKnight, Edgar V., and Christopher Church. Hebrews-James. SHBC. Macon, GA: Smyth & Helwys, 2004.

Mitchell, Alan C. Hebrews. SP 13. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2007.

Witherington, Ben, III. Letters and Homilies for Jewish Christians. A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary on Hebrews, James, and Jude. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Academic, 2007.

Original Audience

Attridge, Harold W. Hebrews: A Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews, 10–13. Hermeneia. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1989.

Brown, Raymond E., and John P. Meier. “Part Two: Rome.” In Antioch and Rome: New Testament Cradles of Catholic Christianity, 89–216. New York: Paulist Press, 1983. Argues for a community in Rome.

Manson, W. The Epistle to the Hebrews. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1951. Argues that the letter is written for the Hebrew Christians referred to in Acts 6:1.

Trotter, A. H., Jr. “Historical and Cultural Contexts.” In Interpreting the Epistle to the Hebrews, 28–30. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 1997.

Greek Philosophy as Background for Understanding Hebrews

Thompson, J. W. The Beginnings of Christian Philosophy: The Epistle to the Hebrews. CBQMS 13. Washington, DC: Catholic Biblical Association, 1982.

Critique of Emphasis on Greek Philosophy for Understanding Hebrews

Hurst, Lincoln D. The Epistle to the Hebrews: Its Background and Thought. SNTSMS 65. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Similarities and Differences between Philo’s Writings and Hebrews

Dey, Lala Kalyan Kumar. The Intermediary World and Patterns of Perfection in Philo and Hebrews. SBLDS 25. Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1975.

Sowers, Sidney G. The Hermeneutics of Philo and Hebrews: The Epistle to the Hebrews as a New Testament Example of Biblical Interpretation. SNTSMS 36. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.

Williamson, Ronald. Philo and the Epistle to the Hebrews. ALGHJ 4. Leiden: Brill, 1970.

Christology

Hamerton-Kelly, Robert G. Pre-existence, Wisdom, and the Son of Man: A Study of the Idea of Pre-existence in the New Testament. SNTSMS 21. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973.

Jesus as High Priest

Demarest, Bruce. A History of the Interpretation of Hebrews 7,1–10 from the Reformation to the Present. BGBE 19. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1976.

Horton, Fred L. The Melchizedek Tradition: A Critical Examination of the Sources to the Fifth Century AD and in the Epistle to the Hebrews. SNTSMS 30. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976.

Kobelski, Paul J. Melchizedek and Melchireša. CBQMS 10. Washington, DC: Catholic Biblical Association, 1981.

Scholer, John M. Proleptic Priests: Priesthood in the Epistle to the Hebrews. JSNTSup 49. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1991.

Vanhoye, Albert. Old Testament Priests and the New Priest according to the New Testament. Petersham, MA: St. Bede’s, 1986.

Salvation

Johnson, Richard W. Going Outside the Camp: The Soteriological Function of the Levitical Critique in the Epistle to the Hebrews. JSNTSup 209. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001.

Covenant and New Covenant

Dunnill, John. Covenant and Sacrifice in the Letter to the Hebrews. SNTSMS 75. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Lehne, Susanne. The New Covenant in Hebrews. JSNTSup 44. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1990.

The Heavenly Sanctuary

Cody, Aelred. Heavenly Sanctuary and Liturgy in the Epistle to the Hebrews. St. Meinrad, IN: Grail Publications, 1960.

Isaacs, Marie E. Sacred Space: An Approach to the Theology of the Epistle to the Hebrews. JSNTSup 73. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1992.

Koester, Craig R. The Dwelling of God: Tabernacle in the Old Testament, Intertestamental Jewish Literature, and the New Testament. CBQMS 22. Washington, DC: Catholic Biblical Association, 1989.

Salevao, Iutisone. Legitimation in the Letter to the Hebrews: The Construction and Maintenance of a Symbolic Universe. JSNTSup 219. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002.

Rest

Laansma, Jon. “I Will Give You Rest”: The Rest Motif in the New Testament with Special Reference to Mt 11 and Heb 3–4. WUNT 98. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1997.

Wray, Judith Hoch. Rest as a Theological Metaphor in the Epistle to the Hebrews and the Gospel of Truth: Early Christian Homiletics of Rest. SBLDS 166. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1998.

Pilgrimage

Käsemann, Ernst. The Wandering People of God: An Investigation of the Letter to the Hebrews. Translated by Roy A. Harrisville and Irving L. Sandberg. 2nd ed. 1984. Reprint, Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2002. It is generally recognized that Käsemann makes too much of gnosticism as a possible reference point for this theme, as he himself later conceded.

Perfection

Peterson, David. Hebrews and Perfection: An Examination of the Concept of Perfection in the “Epistle to the Hebrews.” SNTSMS 47. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Roll Call of Faith (Heb. 11)

Cosby, Michael R. The Rhetorical Composition and Function of Hebrews 11 in Light of Example Lists in Antiquity. London: SCM, 1967.

Eisenbaum, Pamela Michelle. The Jewish Heroes of Christian History: Hebrews 11 in Its Literary Context. SBLDS 156. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997.

Suffering and Shame

Croy, Clayton N. Endurance in Suffering: Hebrews 12:1–13 in Its Rhetorical, Religious, and Philosophical Context. SNTSMS 98. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

deSilva, David A. Bearing Christ’s Reproach. The Challenge of Hebrews in an Honor Culture. North Richland Hills, TX: BIBAL Press, 1999.

———. Despising Shame: Honor Discourse and Community Maintenance in the Epistle to the Hebrews. SBLDS 152. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995.

Fear of God

Gray, Patrick. Godly Fear: The Epistle to the Hebrews and Greco-Roman Critique of Superstition. SBLAcBib 16. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.

Use of the Old Testament in Hebrews

Bateman, H. W. Early Jewish Hermeneutics and Hebrews 1:5–13: The Impact of Early Jewish Exegesis on the Interpretation of a Significant New Testament Passage. New York: Peter Lang, 1997.

Hagner, Donald A. Encountering the Book of Hebrews. EBS. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2002.

Hughes, Graham. Hebrews and Hermeneutics: The Epistle to the Hebrews as a New Testament Example of Biblical Interpretation. SNTSMS 36. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.

Kistemaker, Samuel J. The Psalm Citations in the Epistle to the Hebrews. Amsterdam: Soest, 1961.

Leschert, Dale F. Hermeneutical Foundations of Hebrews: A Study in the Validity of the Epistle’s Interpretation of Some Core Citations from the Psalms. NABPRDS 10. Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 1994.

Swetnam, James. Jesus and Isaac: A Study of the Epistle to the Hebrews in the Light of the Aqedah. AnBib 94. Rome: Biblical Institute Press, 1981.

Other Academic Studies

Bligh, John. Chiastic Analysis of the Epistle to the Hebrews. Oxford: Athenaeum, 1966.

Cortez, Felix H. Four Views on the Warning Passages in Hebrews. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2007.

D’Angelo, Mary Rose. Moses in the Letter to the Hebrews. SBLDS 42. Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1979.

Son, Kiwoong. Zion Symbolism in Hebrews: Hebrews 12:18–24 as a Hermeneutical Key to the Epistle. PBM. Waynesboro, GA: Paternoster, 2006.

Williamson, Ronald. Philo and the Epistle to the Hebrews. Leiden: Brill, 1970.