Hebrews: Audio Lectures

by George H. Guthrie

Book Summary
In Hebrews: Audio Lectures, George Guthrie teaches through the book of Hebrews passage-by-passage, showing how God speaks effectively to us through Jesus and exploring the links between the Bible and our own times.

About the Book
Hebrews speaks of a new and better covenant. It links old priesthoods to the priesthood of Christ. It looks at the nature and heroes of faith. In short, Hebrews roams a broad theological landscape, but its unifying premise remains: God speaks, and if we listen, his message to us revealed through Jesus will change and shape the lives we live. This was true for the original audience of Hebrews; it remains true for us today. In thought and deed, the Word of God is the Word we live by as believers.

Hebrews: Audio Lectures features scholar George H. Guthrie teaching through the book of Hebrews in 25 engaging and challenging lessons. A companion to Guthrie's Hebrews commentary in the NIV Application Commentary series, these lessons explore links between the Bible and our own times that reveal Hebrews' enduring relevance for our twenty-first-century lives.

Hebrews: Audio Lectures is part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures, which is dedicated to bringing expert teaching from world's best biblical scholars and theologians directly to interested learners.

Genres: Christian

Audiobook

Published November 23, 2021

About the author

Dr. George Guthrie serves as the Benjamin W. Perry Professor of Bible at Union University in Jackson, TN. As a student of the New Testament and Koine Greek, he is the author of numerous articles and seven books, including, The Structure of Hebrews: A Textlinguistic Analysis (Supplements to Novum Testamentum, 73. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1994; republished by Baker Books in 1998), Biblical Greek Exegesis (Co-authored with J. Scott Duvall, Zondervan), the NIV Application Commentary: Hebrews, and Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary: Hebrews. Dr. Guthrie has participated in translation projects, such as the revision of The New Living Translation, and has served as a consultant on the Holman Christian Standard Bible, the New Century Version, and the English Standard Version. He has also served for five years as a co-chair of the Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics Section of SBL, has served on the Executive Committee of the Institute for Biblical Research, and has served on the editorial board for Sheffield's JSNTS monograph series. At Union University he has led in the establishment of, and serves as Senior Fellow in, the Ryan Center for Biblical Studies, which is committed to promoting sound Bible reading, study, and interpretation at the grassroots level of the church. Dr. Guthrie holds both the Ph.D. and the M.Div. degrees from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and a Th.M. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.

Reviews

[Matthew C. · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a nice companion to a Bible study I taught on the book of Hebrews, a good supplement to David Allen's commentary. These audio lectures are based on his NIVAC commentary and don't go into lengthy exegetical details, but his conclusions are mostly sounds. Importantly, he gets to the crux of the pastoral concerns of the book and sprinkles personal anecdotes throughout his teaching to illustrate the themes of the epistle.

[Daniel · Rating 5 out of 5]

George Guthrie knows the book of Hebrews and the relevant secondary literature extremely well. I enjoyed listening to these lectures. They were well balanced in terms of unpacking details in the text while also giving ample attention to the macrostructure—the flow of the argument of Hebrews as a whole. Guthrie makes pastoral and practical applications throughout. (I was familiar with some of the material from readong Guthrie's NIVAC commentary on Hebrews, which is one of the stronger volumes in that series. For example, both the commentary and the lectures start with the fictional account of Antonius.)