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Endurance in Suffering: Hebrews 12:1-13 in Its Rhetorical, Religious, and Philosophical Context

Endurance in Suffering: Hebrews 12:1-13 in Its Rhetorical, Religious, and Philosophical Context

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Series: Society for New Testament Studies Monograph, Book 98

Bible Studies

ISBN10: 0521018919
ISBN13: 9780521018913
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 22 2005
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Hebrews 12:1-13 portrays the suffering of its readers with two images: an athletic contest, and God's fatherly discipline. N. Clayton Croy places this important passage in the context of Jewish and Greco-Roman traditions. He argues that the idea of training unites the passage, which presents Jesus as the supreme athlete. It also supports a nonpunitive understanding of discipline, in which God's children undergo a positive process of education. These ideas combine to support a call in Hebrews to faithful endurance rather than repentance.

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