Overview
Pfitzner interprets Hebrews as a passionate appeal directed by its author to a community that is in danger of surrendering the distinctiveness of its faith. Through an examination of its structure, rhetorical devices, and arguments, he shows Hebrews to be a splendid example of extended exhortation, with a recurring pattern of formal introduction, scriptural quotation, exposition, and application. By seeing the message of Hebrews as a "word exhortation" (13:22) to a community in crisis, Pfitzner is able to set its distinctive Christology firmly in its original social, historical, and cultural context.
- | Author: Victor C. Pfitzner
- | Publisher: Abingdon Press
- | Publication Date: Oct 01, 1997
- | Number of Pages: 220 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0687057248
- | ISBN-13: 9780687057245
