The Identity of God's People and the Paradox of Hebrews

Name: The Identity of God's People and the Paradox of Hebrews
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Erschienen im August 2015

XIII, 312 Seiten

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Cover
Preface
Table of Contents
Formalities
1. Introduction
1.1 Questions of Research
1.2 Hebrews' Ambiguous Relationship to Jewish Traditions
1.3 The Problem of Judaism and Jewish Identity in Hebrews Scholarship
1.3.1 The Conflict Theory - Iutisone Salevao
1.3.2 The In-House Theory - Richard Hays
1.3.3 The Foil Theory - Ernst Käsemann
1.3.4 Summary
1.4 An Alternative Approach
1.4.1 Reframing the Debate
1.4.2 Why Focus on Membership in God's People?
1.4.3 Does the Continuity have to be Ethnically Established?
1.4.4 Were the Addresses of Hebrews Jewish Followers of Jesus?
1.4.5 The Irrelevance of Ethnicity to the Argument in Hebrews
1.4.6 A Too Rigid Conception of "Ethnicity"?
1.4.7 Presuppositions Concerning the Social-Historical Setting
1.4.8 Jews Outside the Jesus Movement
1.4.9 Challenging Previous Interpretative Frameworks
1.4.10 Two Disclaimers
1.5 Investigating Identity - Some Key Challenges
1.5.1 Defining the Term "Identity"
1.5.2 Why Identity?
1.5.3 Concentric Circles of Identity
1.5.4 The Relationship between the Addressees and God's People
1.5.5 Entering the Hermeneutics of Identity
1.5.6 Textual Construction of Identity
1.5.7 The Social Identity Concept and Social Identity Theories
1.6 Identity Construction in Hebrews
1.6.1 The Homiletic Nature of Hebrews
1.6.2 The Relationship between Exhortation and Exposition
1.6.3 Bridging the Horizons
1.7 Outline
2. Jesus - The Ideal Representative of God's People
2.1 The Identity of Jesus and that of his Followers
2.2 The Exaltation of Jesus and the Subjection of the World to Come
2.3 Crowning the Son of Man with Glory and Honor
2.4 The Leader to Salvation - Jesus Understood as a Prototype
2.5 The Paradigmatic Suffering and Exaltation of Jesus
2.6 Identifying the Followers of Jesus
2.7 The People of God or Humanity in General?
2.8 Holy Siblings and the House of God
2.8.1 Holy Siblings, called with a heavenly calling
2.8.2 Moses and Jesus as p?st??
2.8.3 The Son and the Servant
2.8.4 The House of God
2.9 Conclusions
3. The New Covenant and the Identity of God's People
3.1 Identity and Covenant
3.2 The Relationship between the New and Old Covenants
3.2.1 What is at Stake?
3.2.2 Jesus - Priest and Covenant Mediator
3.2.3 A Covenant Built upon Better Promises
3.2.4 The First Covenant was not Blameless
3.2.5 Why Jeremiah 31?
3.2.6 God Has Made the First Covenant Old
3.3 The Recipients of the New Covenant
3.3.1 Does Hebrews Share the Point of View of the Source it Quotes?
3.3.2 Implications for Question of Ethnicity
3.3.3 Terminological Implications
3.4 The Standing of the Law of the Old Covenant
3.4.1 The Old Covenant Law
3.4.2 "The Law Made Nothing Perfect"
3.4.3 The Prophetic Function of the Law
3.4.4 From Lesser to Greater
3.4.5 Significant Silence
3.4.6 Conclusions Regarding the Law
3.5 Does "Law" and "Covenant" Simply Mean "Cult"?
3.5.1 Attempts to Isolate the Critique
3.5.2 The Difficulty in Isolating the Critique
3.6 The Death of Jesus and the New Covenant
3.6.1 What Does the Author set out to Argue?
3.6.2 Covenant or Will?
3.6.3 Identifying "Those who Have Been Called"
3.7 Covenant and Community
3.7.1 "The Holy Spirit Bears Witness to us"
3.7.2 Profaning the Sanctifying Covenant Blood
3.7.3 The Blood of the Covenant Mediator in Heaven
3.7.4 The Great Shepherd and the Blood of the Eternal Covenant
3.7.5 Summary
3.8 New Covenant Identity in the Context of Second Temple Judaism
3.8.1 The Covenant: A "Group Belief" in Second Temple Judaism
3.8.2 The New Covenant in Hebrews and Qumran
3.9 Conclusions
4. God's People Worshiping in the Presence of God
4.1 Identity, Exclusivity and Worship
4.2 The Christological Presuppositions for Access to God
4.2.1 Jesus as Forerunner - Access to the Sacred Realm
4.2.2 By Virtue of the Blood of Jesus
4.2.3 "Having a Great High Priest"
4.2.4 The Dedication of a New and Living Way
4.2.5 Summary
4.3 The Contrast between Old and New Worship
4.3.1 The Previous Inaccessibility of Sacred Space
4.3.2 The Necessity of Abolishing the Old Cult
4.3.3 The Critique of the Old Cult: Newness and Continuity
4.4 The Cult Critique in Hebrews and Second Temple Judaism
4.4.1 Exclusivity and De-legitimation
4.4.2 Six Propositions Regarding Hebrews and the Cult in Jerusalem
4.4.3 Comparisons with Jewish Cult Critique
4.5 Identifying Those Who Approach God
4.5.1 True Hearts in the Fullness of Faith
4.5.2 Hearts Sprinkled from Bad Consciousness
4.5.3 Bodies Washed with Pure Water
4.5.4 The Renewed People of God
4.6 Practices
4.6.1 Indirect Evidence for the Use of Scripture in Worship
4.6.2 Approaching God - Through Prayer and Praise
4.6.3 Confession
4.6.4 Charity
4.6.5 Distinct or Traditional Practices?
4.7 Worship and the Purpose of the Cultic Theology in Hebrews
4.7.1 The Practical Situation Addressed in 10:19-25
4.7.2 Serving the Living God
4.7.3 Serving God in Light of the Coming Kingdom
4.7.4 From the Christ Event to a Worshiping Community
4.8 Conclusions
5. Commemorating the Narrative of Israel
5.1 The Narrative of Israel and Membership of God's People
5.2 Israel's Narrative - Between Faith and Lack of Faith
5.2.1 What is p?st???
5.2.2 Unfaithful Ancestors
5.2.3 Celebrating the Faith of the Ancestors
5.3 The Audience and the Ancients Israelites
5.3.1 With the Narrative of the Community as the Starting Point
5.3.2 The Unfinished Narrative of Israel
5.4 Jesus - The Faithful One Par Excellence
5.4.1 Leader and Perfecter of Faith
5.4.2 The Cross of Christ and the Shame of God's People
5.5 Is Hebrews 11 a Narrative about Israel?
5.6 Abraham - The Forefather of the Community
5.6.1 Abraham Understood as a Prototype
5.6.2 Imitating Abraham and Inheriting the Promises
5.6.3 Melchizedek Blessed the One who had Received God's Promises
5.6.4 Abraham the Sojourner
5.7 A Conflict with Jewish Traditions?
5.8 Implications for the Standing of Jews Outside the Jesus Movement
5.9 Conclusions
6. God's People Outside of its Own Camp
6.1 Identifying with the People Outside the Camp
6.2 The Inner Structure and Limits of 13:7-17
6.3 The Leaders of the Community
6.4 The Death of Jesus and Leviticus 16:27-28
6.4.1 A Subversive Interpretation of the Yom Kippur Ritual
6.4.2 "In Order to Sanctify the People through His Blood"
6.5 Hebrews 13:9-11
6.5.1 Strange and Unbeneficial Teaching Concerning Foods
6.5.2 The Exclusion of the Ministers in the Tent from the Altar
6.6 The Discourse on Outsider Status
6.6.1 Attempts at Detaching the Camp from the Old Covenant
6.6.2 God's People Outside of its Own Camp
6.6.3 Bearing the Reproach of Christ - and of God's People
6.6.4 Identifying with the City which is to Come
6.6.5 Leaving Jerusalem
6.6.6 Worship While Waiting for the City to Come
6.7 Social-Historical Implications
6.8 A Ritual-Theoretical Perspective
6.9 Conclusions
7. Conclusions
7.1 Which Questions Have Been Asked?
7.2 Identity in Hebrews - Some General Tendencies
7.3 The Tension between Newness and Continuity
7.4 Hebrews and Jews Outside the Jesus Movement
7.5 Beyond the Conflict Theory, Foil Theory and the In-House Theory
7.6 Implications for an In-House Theory on the Early Jesus Movement
7.7 Ethnic Identity and the People of God
Bibliography
Sources
Lexica and Tools
Secondary Literature
Index of Ancient Sources
Old Testament
Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Dead Sea Scrolls
Other Jewish Literature
Ancient Authors
New Testament
Apostolic Fathers
Index of Modern Authors
Subject Index

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