The Theme of Promise in the Epistle to the Hebrews

Daniel Stevens analyses the use of the language of divine commitment in the Epistle to the Hebrews, arguing that the author distinguishes promise from the cultic language of covenant to sketch a unique mixture of continuity and discontinuity among the people of God across time. Stevens stresses through an exegesis of relevant passages that rest is not the primary content of promise, nor is it the primary lens through which the other instances of promise language should be understood; suggesting instead that the promise is most closely associated with the benefits promised to Abraham, and then mediated through the various subsequent covenants. He further explores how the divine promise relates to both the Old and New Covenants, arguing that Hebrews develops a view of salvation history in which covenants are founded upon promises and then bring those promises to fruition. By demonstrating the ways in which this understanding of promise sheds light on the author''s hermeneutic and on his method of achieving his hortatory purposes for the epistle, Stevens concludes in a reassertion of the consistency of the author''s thought regarding promise.>

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Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations PART ONE: INTRODUCTION AND PROLEGOMENA Chapter 1: Literature Review Chapter 2: Assumptions and Approach PART TWO: EXEGESIS Chapter 3: The Promised Rest, an exegesis of Hebrews 3-4 Chapter 4: The Abrahamic Promise, an exegesis of Hebrews 6-7 Chapter 5: Promise and Covenant, an exegesis of Hebrews 8-9 Chapter 6: Faith in the Promise, an exegesis of Hebrews 10-11 Chapter 7: A Promised Kingdom, an exegesis of Hebrews 12 PART THREE: SYNTHESIS AND CONCLUSIONS Chapter 8: Hebrews' Theology of Promise Chapter 9: Conclusion Bibliography Index