NT432 - The Epistle to the Hebrews (Greek Text)

  • 0 Standard Tuition Fee
  • 4
    Credit Points
  • 0.125 EFT 
  • 7
    AQF level
  • new testamentUnit Discipline

Prerequisites

LA004A and LA004B

Corequisites

NT302

Exclusions

NT422

NT428/438 if Hebrews has been taken.

Set Text Greek

This unit counts towards the "set text" unit requirements of courses, and the original language set text requirement of the Master of Divinity.

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 Greek text of Hebrews
  4. The nature and methods of New Testament exegesis

B. Be able to

  1. Use sources such as lexicons, theological dictionaries, grammars, textual analyses, commentaries and on-line resources
  2. Identify the authorship, date and purpose
  3. Translate into English
  4. Evaluate textual variants and issues in the history of the text
  5. Recognise literary form, genre, structure and rhetorical conventions
  6. Utilize the historical, social and cultural contexts
  7. Assign passages to the literary and canonical contexts
  8. Establish the meaning of significant words and phrases in the contexts of the epistle and other epistles
  9. Trace inter-textual references and allusions
  10. Discuss the main themes, arguments and theological teachings
  11. Translate and Exegete the Greek text of Hebrews

C. Be in a position to

  1. Exegete the Greek 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. Translation and exegesis of the Greek text of Hebrews 1–8, 12.

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:

Ellingworth, P., The Epistle to the Hebrews (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1993).

Guthrie, G. H., Hebrews (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1998).

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).

Stedman, R. C., Hebrews (Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 1992).