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Ausgabe:

September/2017

Spalte:

910–912

Kategorie:

Neues Testament

Autor/Hrsg.:

Moore, Nicholas J.

Titel/Untertitel:

Repetition in Hebrews. Plurality and Singularity in the Letter to the Hebrews, Its Ancient Context, and the Early Church.

Verlag:

Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2015. XV, 276 S. = Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 2. Reihe, 388. Kart. EUR 84,00. ISBN 978-3-16-153852-0.

Rezensent:

David M. Moffitt

Nicholas J. Moore’s book, Repetition in Hebrews: Plurality and Singularity in the Letter to the Hebrews, Its Ancient Context, and the Early Church, offers a compelling study of the ways Hebrews does and does not employ the motif of repetition. M. demonstrates that Hebrews does not, as many assume, view repetition as universally undesirable, showing instead that Hebrews uses repetition in a variety of ways. The key for assessing the value of repetition in Hebrews lies not in singularity per se but in how repetition relates to »the singularity of the Christ event, reinforced and explicated on the model of the Day of Atonement« (5). That is to say, the »direc­tion of causality« runs not from the presumption of repetition as inherently imperfect to the conclusion that Jesus’ singular ...


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