‘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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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| 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
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| 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 |
| Online Access: |
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