A Different Priest: The Epistle to the Hebrews

by Albert Vanhoye

The first part, which only examines one theme, the Name of Christ, offers a general and contemporary Christology. The next two parts offer a priestly Christology, firstly more general and then more specific. Finally, the last two parts show the result of this for the Christian life, lived out in faith, hope and charity. The author of this work has worked for many years on the Epistle to the Hebrews, and, notably, has taught it at the Biblical Institute and published a great number of specialist articles and books on it, and now brings one of the most contemporary authoritative commentaries to a wider audience, contributing with the understanding of the unique Priesthood of Jesus Christ for the first Christian communities. In this work, a detailed analysis of the text known as the Epistle to the Hebrews enables us to conclude without a shadow of a doubt that this is the full text of a splendid Christian preaching, which constantly conforms to the rules of Semitic rhetoric, including various genres of parallelism, synonymis, antithesis and complementarity, and obeying a concentrically symmetrical schema

456 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2010

Reviews

[Henry]

Very helpful commentary on Hebrews. Examines it from the perspective of “Semitic rhetoric” - i.e., through the lens of things like Hebrew parallelism and chiastic structures. Totally convincing in most of the exegesis and a go-to source on the structure of the book (a long sermon in Vanhoye’s reading) and of each Section. Supplies his own very literal translations which are also extremely helpful.

[K. P. · Rating 5 out of 5]

fascinating book on a fascinating piece of scripture, the only Bible book that is a piece of preaching. Very interesting also as history of rhetorical usages.

[Paulson Pulikottil · Rating 3 out of 5]

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