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Hebrews

NT 4 - LMAP SoM

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Your family is divided over the struggles you are facing. Some blame you for turning away from the traditional cultural beliefs.

How do you respond?

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Read through Hebrews

Note:

  • Any references to the receivers of the letter
  • Any references to the purpose of the letter

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Authorship?

Paul

  • For: Clement (C.2); Origen (C.5)

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  • Against: Erasmus; Calvin; Luther (C. 16)

Apollos

  • For: Luther (C.16)

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  • Clement
  • For: Calvin (C.16)

Priscilla and Aquila

  • For: Harnack (C. 20)

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  • Against: Buchanan; Koester (C. 20)

Barnabas

  • For: Tertullian (C.2)

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The Hebrews?

  • Untitled
  • Septuagint (LXX)
  • God-fearers?
  • Priests?
  • Hebrews 5:12; 7-10

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Purpose and Context

What concerned the writer?

  • Hebrews 2:1; 3:12; 6:6; 10:19, 25
  • Hebrews 10:32-34, 36; 12:3, 5, 7; 13:14

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What was the danger facing the ‘Hebrews?’ (Heb 7-10)

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The Temple

  • Find the references to the system of worship in Second Temple Mosaic cultus
  • Why might the Jewish Christians in the Diaspora have been under pressure?
  • Before or after 70AD?

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Worship in Hebrews

  • Define ‘Worship’.

How would Greco-Roman views put pressure on Jews and Christians?

  • How did the Jews worship? (Exo 3:5; 19:4, 20-23; 40:34-38)
  • What was the place of Priests? (Lev 1:4; 5:1-6; 6:1-7; 12:1-5; 16)

How would Jewish views put pressure on Christian believers?

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How has Jesus changed ‘Worship?’

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How should ‘worship’ be practised in the light of the letter to the Hebrews?