Perspectives for Reading the Epistle to the Hebrews as a Constructive Contribution to Jewish-Christian Dialogue

The Epistle to the Hebrews, with its strong antithesis between the old and new covenants, has often been accused of supporting anti-Jewish polemics or even of displaying them itself. Hebrews is thus considered an obstacle to Jewish-Christian dialogue. This contribution aims to further the dialogue....

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Main Author: Heidel, Andreas-Christian 1989- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: NTWSA 2022
In: Neotestamentica
Year: 2022, Volume: 56, Issue: 2, Pages: 253-274
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Interfaith dialogue / Divine covenant / Judaism / Christianity / Eschatology / Bible. Römerbrief 9-11 / Bible. Hebräerbrief 11,39-40 / Israel
RelBib Classification:AX Inter-religious relations
BH Judaism
CA Christianity
HC New Testament
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Summary:The Epistle to the Hebrews, with its strong antithesis between the old and new covenants, has often been accused of supporting anti-Jewish polemics or even of displaying them itself. Hebrews is thus considered an obstacle to Jewish-Christian dialogue. This contribution aims to further the dialogue. It offers hermeneutical and exegetical perspectives to formulate a positive eschatological view of "Israel" from the overall theological witness of Hebrews in analogy to Romans 9-11, without abandoning the Christ-centred soteriology of the letter. These perspectives promote the idea of the one "believing people of God" in combination with the eschatological idea in Hebrews 11:39-40, that all believers will together enter their eschatological completion.
ISSN:2518-4628
Contains:Enthalten in: Neotestamentica
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1353/neo.2022.a900313