Full title
"You Are a Priest Forever": Second Temple Jewish Messianism and the Priestly Christology of the Epistle to the Hebrews
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Research notes
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Reference type
Year
2008
Journal / Book Title || Series Title
Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah
Issue / Series Volume
74
Publisher
Brill
Place of Publication
Leiden
Chapter
xiii + 229
Alternative title
STDJ
Label
10/03/2008
Abstract
Of the many proposals for the conceptual background of the priestly Christology of the Epistle to the Hebrews, this book argues that the presentations of the messianic priest and Melchizedek in the Qumran texts provide the closest parallels to Hebrews’ thought.
Notes
Contents: Hebrews’ presentation of Jesus as High Priest -- Previous theories of the background of the motif -- Messianic priest traditions in Second Temple Judaism -- Melchizedek traditions in Second Temple Judaism -- The priestly christology of Hebrews and Qumran traditions.|Read more: http://books.google.co.il/books?id=2M-nLK9jDYoC&printsec=frontcover&hl=… Reprint, 2014
Primary Texts: Judean Desert Documents