Doctoral Seminar on Hebrews
October 22, 2012
This week I participate in my first ever doctoral seminar at LMU. One of my fellow students is researching Hebrews for his dissertation. Thus, our seminar will focus on Hebrews and we will hopefully sharpen our friend’s research into the letter. Incidentally, he gets to co-teach the seminar. Listed below are the essays and monographs we will be reading for the course. I’m proud to say that one of Dr. Black’s essays (who supervised my master’s work) made the list:
Rissi, Mathias. Die Theologie des Hebräerbriefs: Ihre Verankerung in der Situation
des Verfassers und seiner Leser. WUNT 41. Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1987. (61-
81, esp. 80–1)
Backhaus, Knut. “Gottes nicht bereuter Bund: Alter und neuer Bund in der Sicht
des Frühchristentums.” In Ekklesiologie des Neuen Testaments: Für Karl Kertelge. Freiburg,
Herder, 1996.
Bauckham, Richard. “Monotheism and Christology in Hebrews 1.” In Early Jewish
and Christian Monotheism. Stuckenbruck, Loren and Wendy E.S. North, eds.
JSNTSS 263. London: T&T Clark, 2004.
Black, David Alan. “Hebrews 1:1-4: A Study in Discourse Analysis.” WTJ 49
(1987): 175-194.
Colijn, Brenda B. “‘Let Us Approach’: Soteriology in the Epistle to the Hebrews.”
JETS 39 (1996): 571-586.
Gelardini, Gabriella. “Hebrews, Homiletics, and Liturgical Scripture
Interpretation.” in Reading the Epistle to the Hebrews: A Resource for Students.
Eric F. Mason and Kevin B. McCruden, eds. Atlanta: Society of Biblical
Literature, 2011: 121-144.
Hays, Richard B. “‘Here We Have No Lasting City’: New Covenantalism in Hebrews.”
In The Epistle to the Hebrews and Christian Theology. Richard Bauckham, et
al., ed. Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans, 2009: 151-173.
Lichtenberger, Hermann. “Alter Bund und Neuer Bund.” NTS 41 (1995): 400-414.
Lindars, Barnabas. “The Rhetorical Structure of Hebrews.” NTS 35 (1989): 382-
406.
Mason, Eric F. “Cosmology, Messianism, and Melchizedek: Apocalyptic Jewish
Traditions and Hebrews.” in Reading the Epistle to the Hebrews: A Resource
for Students. Eric F. Mason and Kevin B. McCruden, eds. Atlanta: Society of Biblical
Literature, 2011: 53-76.
Schenck, Kenneth. “Hebrews as the Re-presentation of a Story: A Narrative
Approach to Hebrews.” in Reading the Epistle to the Hebrews: A Resource for
Students. Eric F. Mason and Kevin B. McCruden, eds. Atlanta: Society of
Biblical Literature, 2011: 171-188.
Schenck, Kenneth. “Philo and the Epistle to the Hebrews: Ronald Williamson’s
Study after Thirty Years.” Studia Philonica Annual 13 (2002): 112-135.
Smillie, Gene R. “Contrast or Continuity in Hebrews 1.1-2?” NTS 51 (2005): 543-
560.
Stanley, Steve. “The Structure of Hebrews from Three Perspectives.” Tyndale
Bulletin 45 (1994): 245-271.
Stuckenbruck, Loren T. Angel Veneration and Christology: A Study in Early Judaism
and in the Christology of the Apocalypse of John. WUNT II 70. Tübingen:
Mohr-Siebeck, 1995: 119-139.
Thompson, James W. “What has Middle Platonism to Do with Hebrews?” in Reading
the Epistle to the Hebrews: A Resource for Students. Eric F. Mason and Kevin
B. McCruden, eds. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2011: 31-52.
Treier, Daniel J. “Speech Acts, Hearing Hearts, and Other Senses: The Doctrine of
Scripture Practiced in Hebrews.” In The Epistle to the Hebrews and Christian
Theology. Richard Bauckham, et al., ed. Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans,
2009: 337-352.
Weiß, Hans-Friedrich. Der Brief an die Hebräer. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck &
Ruprecht, 1991: Einleitung.
Monografien
Fuhrmann, Sebastian. Vergeben und Vergessen: Christologie und Neuer Bund im
Hebräerbrief. WMANT 113. Neukirchen-Vluyn, 2007.
Lewicki, Tomasz. “Weist Nicht ab den Sprechenden”: Wort Gottes und Paraklese im
Hebräerbrief. PTS 41. Paderborn: Schöningh, 2004.

I enjoy following your studies! It’s amazing all the work that is required. Keep it up! -Brian from Southeastern Seminary
Thank you Brian. I hope you are enjoying your time at Southeastern and, through your studies, growing in your love for Christ.