Cosmic Eschatology in Hebrews
Creation, Cosmology, and the World to Come
Will be published approx. on 17. December 2026
Book
Hardback
978-90-04-76743-0 (ISBN)
Description
Does Hebrews anticipate the annihilation of the material world or its renewal? This monograph offers a fresh approach to the scholarly impasse on this question by reading Hebrews against presuppositions shared across Jewish, Christian, Platonic, Stoic, Epicurean, Valentinian, and Gnostic backgrounds. Through comparative, philological, and exegetical analysis, this study challenges long-held assumptions-such as that Platonic dualism is "anti-cosmic" or that ????????? means "removal/destruction"-and offers a new synthesis of Hebrews's cosmology and eschatology: Hebrews envisions the final transformation of the cosmos in which God's people will ultimately dwell on the renewed earth.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
ISBN-13
978-90-04-76743-0 (9789004767430)
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Judson D. Greene, Ph.D. (University of Cambridge), is Professor and Associate Dean at Redemption Seminary. He has published articles on biblical interpretation and theology, as well as poetry and essays of cultural criticism. His research interests include reception history, Greek lexicography, and the atonement.