Deciphering the Worlds of Hebrews

Collected Essays

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In the collection entitled Deciphering the Worlds of Hebrews Gabriella Gelardini gathers fifteen essays written in the last fifteen years, twelve of which are in English and three in German. Arranged in three parts (the world of, behind, and in front of Hebrews’s text), her articles deal with such topics as structure and intertext, sin and faith, atonement and cult, as well as space and resistance.

She reads Hebrews no longer as the enigmatic and homeless outsider within the New Testament corpus, as the “Melchizedekian being without genealogy”; rather, she reads Hebrews as one whose origin has finally been rediscovered, namely in Second Temple Judaism.
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Front Matter
Preliminary Material
Copyright page
Dedication
Introduction
Part 1 The World of Hebrews’s Text
Chapter 1 “As if by Paul?” Some Remarks on the Textual Strategy of Anonymity in Hebrews
Chapter 2 From “Linguistic Turn” and Hebrews Scholarship to Anadiplosis Iterata: The Enigma of a Structure
Chapter 3 Hebrews, Homiletics, and Liturgical Scripture Interpretation
Chapter 4 Hebrews, an Ancient Synagogue Homily for Tisha be-Av: Its Function, Its Basis, Its Theological Interpretation
Chapter 5 Rhetorical Criticism in Hebrews Scholarship: Avenues and Aporias
Part 2 The World behind Hebrews’s Text
Chapter 6 Frei von Blut und Fleisch, Sündenbewusstsein und Todesfurcht: Die Hoffnung auf einen vollkommenen Menschen im Hebräer
Chapter 7 Charting “Outside the Camp” with Edward W. Soja: Critical Spatiality and Hebrews 13
Chapter 8 Useless Foods: Communal Meals in Hebrews
Chapter 9 Von Bundesbruch zu Bundeserneuerung: Das sühnende Opfer im Hebräer
Chapter 10 The Inauguration of Yom Kippur according to the LXX and Its Cessation or Perpetuation according to Hebrews: A Systematic Comparison
Part 3 The World in Front of Hebrews’s Text
Chapter 11 Faith in Hebrews and Its Relationship to Soteriology: An Interpretation in the Context of the Concept of Fides in Roman Culture
Chapter 12 Existence beyond Borders: Hebrews and Critical Spatiality
Chapter 13 “Wir haben hier keine bleibende Stadt” (Hebr 13,14): Kritische Raum- und Machtdiskurse im Hebräer
Chapter 14 The Unshakeable Kingdom in Heaven: Notes on Eschatology in Hebrews
Chapter 15 Ethics in Hebrews
Back Matter
Index of Ancient Sources
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Subjects
Gabriella Gelardini is Professor of Christianity, Religion, Worldview, and Ethics at Nord University, Norway. She has published various monographs, edited volumes, and numerous articles on the New Testament, including Hebrews in Contexts (edited with Harold W. Attridge; Brill, 2016).
"She [Gelardini] ably summarizes and engages with broader currents such as the linguistic turn or spatiality, with wider ancient contexts such as discussions of synagogue practice or Roman fides and brings these to bear in the detail of her exegetical or structural discussions of the text of Hebrews. While some details may not persuade […] her wider project of attending to the detail of what it means to locate Hebrews within Second Temple Judaism is both important and convincing." – Nicholas J. Moore, Durham University, in: Journal for the Study of the New Testament Booklist 2022 44.5, August 2022
Contents

Introduction
 1 Hebrews Scholarship in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
 2 Hebrews Scholarship in the Twenty-First Century
 3 Arrangement and Content of This Collection

Part 1: The World of Hebrews’s Text


1 “As if by Paul?” Some Remarks on the Textual Strategy of Anonymity in Hebrews
 1 Introduction—Hebrews: Pauline or not Pauline, or “Somehow” Connected to a Pauline Environment
 2 Anonymity as a Literary Strategy
 3 Habakkuk 2:4 in Hebrews and Paul
 4 Jesus as Mercy Seat (ἱλαστήριον) in Heb 9:5 and in Rom 3:25?
 5 Once for All (ἐφάπαξ) in Hebrews and Paul
 6 Brief Conclusion

2 From “Linguistic Turn” and Hebrews Scholarship to Anadiplosis Iterata: The Enigma of a Structure
 1 History of Ideas
 2 Hebrews Scholarship in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
 3 Structural Analysis: A New Proposal

3 Hebrews, Homiletics, and Liturgical Scripture Interpretation
 1 The Ancient Synagogue and its Liturgy
 2 The Ancient Synagogue Homily
 3 The Two Readings Underlying Hebrews, or its Two Central Scriptural Quotations
 4 Hebrews, an Ancient Synagogue Homily and its Remaining Scriptural Quotations
 5 Hebrews in the Context of Ancient Synagogue Liturgy

4 Hebrews, an Ancient Synagogue Homily for Tisha be-Av: Its Function, Its Basis, Its Theological Interpretation
 1 Introduction
 2 The Ancient Synagogue Homily in Its Liturgical Context
 3 Hebrews, an Ancient Synagogue Homily for Tisha be-Av
 4 Conclusion

5 Rhetorical Criticism in Hebrews Scholarship: Avenues and Aporias
 1 A Brief History
 2 Exemplary and Theoretical Analysis
 3 Summary and Prospects

Part 2: The World behind Hebrews’s Text


6 Frei von Blut und Fleisch, Sündenbewusstsein und Todesfurcht: Die Hoffnung auf einen vollkommenen Menschen im Hebräer
 1 Einleitung
 2 Der kosmische Horizont des Menschenbilds im Hebräer
 3 Jesus Christus ist der Mensch—die “christologische” Anthropologie
 4 Blut und Fleisch, Seele und Geist, Tod und Leben
 5 Geheiligtes Menschsein muss noch im Glauben der Erprobung im Leiden standhalten
 6 Versuch einer historischen Kontextualisierung
 7 Schluss

7 Charting “Outside the Camp” with Edward W. Soja: Critical Spatiality and Hebrews 13
 1 Introduction
 2 Hebrews 13 in Scholarship: Riddles about a Key Space
 3 Critical Spatiality: An Apt Methodology
 4 The Text of Hebrews 13: Overlapping Maps
 5 The Primary Intertext of Hebrews 13: Exodus 32–33
 6 How the Primary Intertext, Exodus 32–33, Reinterprets Hebrews 13 Spatially
 7 Conclusion and Outlook

8 Useless Foods: Communal Meals in Hebrews
 1 Introduction
 2 The Epistle to the Hebrews and Communal Meals
 3 Context, Structure and Content
 4 Research History and Central Intertext
 5 How the Intertext Exod 32–34 Interprets Heb 13
 6 Conclusion

9 Von Bundesbruch zu Bundeserneuerung: Das sühnende Opfer im Hebräer
 1 Das Opfer im Neuen Testament und im Hebräer
 2 Der kultisch-liturgische Kontext des Hebräers
 3 Der theologische Kontext des Hebräers
 4 Die kultischen Inhalte des Hebräers
 5 Der sühnende Opferkult des Jom Kippur
 6 Der sühnende Opferkult im Hebräer
 7 Der historische Kontext des Hebräers

10 The Inauguration of Yom Kippur according to the LXX and Its Cessation or Perpetuation according to Hebrews: A Systematic Comparison
 1 Introduction
 2 Hebrews Scholarship
 3 Systematic Comparison of Cultic Elements
 4 Conclusion

Part 3: The World in Front of Hebrews’s Text


11 Faith in Hebrews and Its Relationship to Soteriology: An Interpretation in the Context of the Concept of Fides in Roman Culture
 1 Fides quaerens intellectum?
 2 Bicultural Interaction, Not Syncretism
 3 Fides and πίστις
 4 The Cloud of Witnesses

12 Existence beyond Borders: Hebrews and Critical Spatiality
 1 The Turn to Critical Spatiality
 2 Mapping the Ancient World with Hebrews
 3 “Outside the Camp”: A “Counter Space” in Hebrews 13

13 “Wir haben hier keine bleibende Stadt” (Hebr 13,14): Kritische Raum- und Machtdiskurse im Hebräer
 1 Die Wende zur Raumsoziologie (“Critical Spatiality”)
 2 Eine Landkarte der Alten Welt: Nach dem Neuen Testament und dem Hebräerbrief
 3 “Ausserhalb des Lagers”—Ein “Gegenort” in Hebräer 13

14 The Unshakeable Kingdom in Heaven: Notes on Eschatology in Hebrews
 1 Introduction—Eschatology and Apocalypticism
 2 Hellenistic and Apocalyptic Eschatology in the Epistle to the Hebrews
 3 The Unshakeable Kingdom of Heaven

15 Ethics in Hebrews
 1 Introduction
 2 Descriptions of Hebrews’s Ethics
 3 Ethical-Hermeneutical Evaluations of Hebrews
 4 Conclusion
Index of Ancient Sources
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Subjects
All interested in the New Testament in general and Hebrews in particular, that is, scholars and students, as well as ministers and the interested public.
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