NT422 - The Epistle to the Hebrews (English Text)

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  • 4
    Credit Points
  • 0.125 EFT 
  • 7
    AQF level
  • new testamentUnit Discipline

Corequisites

NT302

Exclusions

NT432

NT428/438 if Hebrews has been taken.

Set Text

This unit counts towards the "set text" unit requirements of courses.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will

A. Know and understand

  1. The Epistle to the Hebrews: authorship, date, destination
  2. The themes and theology of Hebrews
  3. The English text of Hebrews
  4. The nature and methods of New Testament exegesis

B. Be able to

  1. Use sources such as biblical and theological dictionaries, commentaries and on-line resources
  2. Recognise literary form, genre, structure and rhetorical conventions
  3. Compare and contrast translations
  4. Evaluate matters relating to authorship, date and purpose
  5. Utilize the historical, social and cultural contexts
  6. Assign passages to their literary and canonical contexts
  7. Establish the meaning of significant words and phrases in the context of the epistle
  8. Trace inter-textual references and allusions
  9. Discuss the main themes, arguments and theological teachings
  10. Exegete the English text of Hebrews

C. Be in a position to

  1. Exegete the text of Hebrews for personal understanding and for use in ministry contexts
  2. Integrate perspectives from Hebrews into biblical interpretation and Christian thinking
  3. Apply the teaching of Hebrews to situations and issues in contemporary Christianity and society

Content

  1. An introduction to Hebrews, including questions of authorship, date, destination.
  2. The theology of the epistle, including such themes as the old and new covenants, sacrifice, perfection,  apostasy, the use of the Old Testament, Christology, cross and ascension, and eschatology
  3. Exegesis of the English text of Hebrews 1–13

Set Readings

Recommended:

Dunnill, J., Covenant and Sacrifice in the Letter to the Hebrews (Cambridge: CUP, 1993).

Hagner, D. A., Encountering the Book of Hebrews (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2002).

Schenck, K. L., Understanding the Book of Hebrews (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2003).

Trotter, A. H., Interpreting the Epistle to the Hebrews (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1997).

 

Commentaries

Guthrie, G. H., Hebrews (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2007).

Johnson, L. T., Hebrews (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006).

Koester, C. R., Hebrews (New York: Doubleday, 2001).

Lane, W. L., Hebrews: A Call to Commitment (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1985).

Lane, W. L., Hebrews (2 Vols; Dallas, TX: Word, 1991).

Pfitzner, V. C., Hebrews (Nashville: Abingdon, 1997).