Why Bother With Hebrews?

Few, if any, present-day undergraduate degree courses in Theology include in their syllabus a study of the Epistle to the Hebrews or other New Testament writings other than the Gospels and the Pauline epistles. The result is in effect that we create a canon within a canon. This paper, originally rea...

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Main Author: Isaacs, Marie E. (Author)
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2002
In: Heythrop journal
Year: 2002, Volume: 43, Issue: 1, Pages: 60-72
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