Contents

Abbreviations

List of Contributors

Introduction

Part 1 Jewish Contexts

Midrash in Hebrews / Hebrews as Midrash

Jewish and Christian Theology from the Hebrew Bible: The Concept of Rest and Temple in the Targumim, Hebrews, and the Old Testament

Moses as Priest and Apostle in Hebrews 3:1–6

Hebrews and Second Temple Jewish Traditions on the Origins of Angels

Part 2 Greco-Roman and Empire-Critical Contexts

“You Have Become Dull of Hearing”: Hebrews 5:11 and the Rhetoric of Religious Entrepreneurs

Starting Sacrifice in the Beyond: Flavian Innovations in the Concept of Priesthood and Their Reflections in the Treatise “To the Hebrews”

“For Here We Have No Lasting City” (Heb 13:14a): Flavian Iconography, Roman Imperial Sacrificial Iconography, and the Epistle to the Hebrews

The God of Peace and His Victorious King: Hebrews 13:20–21 in Its Roman Imperial Context

Part 3 Spatial Contexts

Critical Spatiality and the Book of Hebrews

The Body of Jesus Outside the Eternal City: Mapping Ritual Space in the Epistle to the Hebrews

Charting “Outside the Camp” with Edward W. Soja: Critical Spatiality and Hebrews 13

An Archaeology of Hebrews' Tabernacle Imagery

Serving in the Tabernacle in Heaven: Sacred Space, Jesus’s High-Priestly Sacrifice, and Hebrews’Analogical Theology

Part 4 Reception-Historical and Hermeneutical Contexts

Jesus the Incarnate High Priest: Intracanonical Readings of Hebrews and John

“In Many and Various Ways”: Theological Interpretation of Hebrews in the Modern Period

Stumbling Block or Stepping Stone? On the Reception History of Hebrews 8:13

Ritual and Religion, Sacrifice and Supersession: A Utopian Reading of Hebrews

Hebrews and the Discourse of Judeophobia

Index of Modern Authors

Index of Scripture and Other Ancient Sources