Tasker Professor New Testament Exegesis (2 results)

Softcover. 7th, revised. 111, [1] p.; 18.5 cm. [First printed in 1944] VG, sewn, in orig. blue wrapper.

Softcover. 2nd edition. 56 p.; 21.5 cm. [First printed in 1950] `Had St. Paul been concerned to develop the contrast between the sacrificial death of Christ and the Levitical system of sacrifice, just as he had in Romans contrasted law and grace, we cannot say that he could not have done so along the lines of this Epistle: and as for the use made in the Epistle of the story of Melchizedek, who can set any limits to the exegetical powers of the converted Jew who had sat at the feet of Gamaliel? But, while I do not wish to suggest that the denial of the Pauline authorship of Hebrews is not one of the more assured results of critical scholarship since the Reformation, I am concerned to try to show that this Epistle, as all the documents in the New Testament, including the Pauline Epistles, is true to the primitive preaching as a whole, whatever its date and its provenance and whoever its author or the first recipients may have been. And it is under four headings, similar to those suggested by Prof. Dodd, which not inadequately describe what appear to be persistent elements in the primitive kerugma [sic], that I propose to consider the subject-matter of the Epistle to the Hebrews. These headings are: (i) The Preparation, (ii) The Fulfilment, (iii) The Consequences, and (iv) The Appeal.' (p. 7 f.) Good, stapled, in orig. tan wrapper.