‘Bear with My Word of Comfort’: Consolatory Strategies in the Letter to the Hebrews

In this study, I argue that the book of Hebrews contains five consolatory strategies that recur in the letters of Cicero, Seneca, and Plutarch. I relate Hebrews to the Greco-Roman consolatory tradition in terms of general modes of socio-literary practice that cut across traditional dividing lines su...

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Main Author: Pracht, Erich Benjamin (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: 2025
In: Journal for the study of the New Testament
Year: 2025, Volume: 48, Issue: 1, Pages: 273-297
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Comfort / Hebrews / Bible. Hebräerbrief 13,22 / Epistolography / Cicero, Marcus Tullius 106 BC-43 BC / SenecalPhilosophus, Lucius A. -65 / SenecalRhetor, Lucius A. 55 BC-40 / Plutarchus 45-120
RelBib Classification:HC New Testament
TB Antiquity
ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies
Further subjects:B Hebrews
B Temple
B Rhetoric
B Consolation
B Exhortation
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