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Cosmic Eschatology in Hebrews
Creation, Cosmology, and the World to Come
Series: - Novum Testamentum, Supplements, Volume: 198
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Does Hebrews anticipate the annihilation of the material world or its renewal? This monograph offers a fresh approach to the scholarly impasse on this question by reading Hebrews against presuppositions shared across Jewish, Christian, Platonic, Stoic, Epicurean, Valentinian, and Gnostic backgrounds. Through comparative, philological, and exegetical analysis, this study challenges long-held assumptionsâsuch as that Platonic dualism is âanti-cosmicâ or that μεÏάθεÏÎ¹Ï means âremoval/destructionââand offers a new synthesis of Hebrews's cosmology and eschatology: Hebrews envisions the final transformation of the cosmos in which Godâs people will ultimately dwell on the renewed earth.
Judson D. Greene, Ph.D. (University of Cambridge), is Professor and Associate Dean at Redemption Seminary. He has published articles on biblical interpretation and theology, as well as poetry and essays of cultural criticism. His research interests include reception history, Greek lexicography, and the atonement.
This book would be of interest to New Testament scholars and students interested in interpretation, creation, cosmology, eschatology, and lexicography; Classicists interested philosophical conversations crossing into Judaism and Christianity; theologians interested in creation, eschatology, and environmental ethics.