Suffering in the Face of Death
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Suffering in the Face of Death

The Epistle to the Hebrews and Its Context of Situation

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Suffering in the Face of Death

The Epistle to the Hebrews and Its Context of Situation

About this book

Suffering and death are two topics that are frequently referred to in the Epistle to the Hebrews, but have rarely been examined within scholarship on this important New Testament text. Dyer redresses the balance in this study of these topics, conducting a thorough investigation using semantic domain analysis. He incorporates recent advancements in modern linguistics, in particular the 'context of situation', and then connects these topics to the social situation addressed in Hebrews. In so doing he is able to reveal how the author is responding to the reality of suffering in the lives of his audience. With this awareness, it becomes clear how the author also responds to his audience's pain by creating models of endurance in suffering and death. These serve to motivate his audience toward similar endurance within their own social context. Dyer shows that it is possible to make significant determinations about the social setting of Hebrews based upon an examination and analysis of the language used therein.

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Information

Publisher
T&T Clark
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9780567684912
eBook ISBN
9780567672360
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Biblical Studies
Suffering 
in 
the 
Face 
of Death
20
interpreting 
the 
epistle. 
ere 
remains 
a 
need 
for 
a 
thorough 
examination 
of 
the 
topics 
of 
suffering 
and 
death 
in 
Hebrews 
with 
attention 
to 
their 
relationship 
to 
the 
social 
situation 
being 
addressed 
by 
the 
epistle. 
is 
study 
will 
show 
that 
the 
author 
of 
Hebrews 
wrote 
to 
an 
audience 
presently 
facing 
some 
form 
of 
suffering 
and 
felt 
a 
substantial 
fear 
that 
death 
was 
likely 
on 
the 
horizon. 
is 
is 
reflected 
in 
the 
abundance 
of 
suffering 
and 
death 
language 
in 
Hebrews 
and 
the 
rhetorical 
and 
theological 
response 
of 
the 
author. 
Independent 
of 
this 
hypothesis 
regarding 
the 
social 
situation 
of 
Hebrews, 
this 
study 
will 
firmly 
establish 
these 
two 
topics 
as 
not 
just 
present 
in 
the 
epistle 
but 
essential 
to 
its 
interpretation.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Abbreviations
  9. Introduction
  10. Chapter 1 Previous Studies on the Topics of Suffering and Death in Hebrews
  11. Chapter 2 History of Research on the Situation Addressed in Hebrews
  12. Chapter 3 Methodology: Moving From a Text to its Context
  13. Chapter 4 Suffering and Death Language in Hebrews
  14. Chapter 5 Clues of a Social Context From the Suffering and Death Language in Hebrews
  15. Chapter 6 The Use of Exempla in Responding To a Context of Suffering and Death in Hebrews
  16. Chapter 7 Conclusion and Further Research
  17. Bibliography
  18. Author Index
  19. Sources Index