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Situating the Letter to the Hebrews in Early Christian History

出版	E. Mellen Press, 2002
主題	Religion / Biblical Studies / New Testament / GeneralReligion / Christian Church / History
ISBN	07734690019780773469006
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=FG8RAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The religious text at the center of this argument is an anonymous early Christian text that has come to be known as 'the Letter to the Hebrews'. For some New Testa ment (NT) scholars and historians of Early Christianity, Hebrews presents something of a riddle. As such, it provides a particularly useful case study of the contemporary methods used for situating ancient religious texts in their original setting. Isaak clarifies a basic methodological problem in the use of early Christian literature as evidence for the history of early Christianity. For what can the historian assume these texts to be evidence? What, if anything, do they represent beyond the views of the author? Can these texts give the historian access to the beliefs and practices of early Christian communities? If so, this would provide welcome new information about the history of earliest Christianity. Not surprisingly, it has become common to assume that early Christian texts do reflect the beliefs and practices of specific communities of believers. Is this assumption justified? The issue is particularly urgent in the case of the anonymous Letter to the Hebrews. Scholars have long puzzled over why the peculiar views