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Inventing Hebrews

by Michael Wade Martin, Jason A. Whitlark

Bible, criticism, interpretation, etc., n. t. epistlesCriticism, interpretationIsraelitenRhetorikBibleBibel

Inventing Hebrews examines a perennial topic in the study of the Letter to the Hebrews, its structure and purpose. Michael Martin and Jason Whitlark undertake a thorough synthesis of the ancient theory of invention and arrangement, providing a new account of Hebrews's design. The key to the speech's outline, the authors argue, is in its use of "disjointed" arrangement, a template ubiquitous in antiquity but little discussed in modern biblical studies.

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