Abandonment and Absenteeism in the Letter to the Hebrews and Greco-Roman Associations

In this study, I provide a new outlook on how to assess the social health of the community to which the Letter to the Hebrews was directed. I challenge the general assumption that the community was on the brink of abandonment by comparing the text with the documentary data produced by the associatio...

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Main Author: Yuh, Jason N. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Scholar's Press [2019]
In: Journal of Biblical literature
Year: 2019, Volume: 138, Issue: 4, Pages: 863-882
Further subjects:B JEWS; Societies, etc
B COMMUNITIES; Social aspects
B GRECO-Roman civilization
B Speeches, addresses, etc
B ABANDONMENT (Psychology)
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