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Wunrow, Stephen C.

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Passing Through the Heavens: Heavenly Space in Hebrews and Its Jewish and Christian Environment.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Passing Through the Heavens: Heavenly Space in Hebrews and Its Jewish and Christian Environment./
Author:	Wunrow, Stephen C.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2023,
Description:	384 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-10, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-10A.
Subject:	Biblical studies. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30635622
ISBN:	9798382304663

Passing Through the Heavens: Heavenly Space in Hebrews and Its Jewish and Christian Environment.
Wunrow, Stephen C.

Passing Through the Heavens: Heavenly Space in Hebrews and Its Jewish and Christian Environment. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023 - 384 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-10, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Wheaton College, 2023.

It is often recognized that the book of Hebrews focuses on heaven. What exactly is "heaven," however? This dissertation examines how the author of Hebrews intended his audience to understand his statements and affirmations about heaven. To accomplish this goal, I survey and analyze other early Jewish and Christian texts that speak about humans ascending into heaven. This survey includes a number of texts from the so-called pseudepigrapha (chapter 2) as well as the book of Revelation (chapter 3). I suggest that the majority of these texts present coherent descriptions of heavenly space. Further, these descriptions of heaven often ground claims and exhortations that lose their basis and force if the descriptions are not understood to be spatial and realistic. However, these various descriptions of heaven agree on only a few major details, and this variety does not allow us to find one single "Jewish" or "Christian" understanding of heavenly space.In chapter 4, I analyze Hebrews against this background. The author describes multiple heavens through which Jesus passes to reach a heavenly tabernacle in the highest heaven, where he enters into the Most Holy Place to present his offering and to sit on the divine throne. Much like most of the texts surveyed in chapters 2 and 3, Hebrews also presents a coherent description of heavenly space, and the description again grounds exhortations and claims that lose their basis and force if the description is not understood to be spatial and realistic. I conclude that the author of Hebrews intended his audience to understand his references to heaven realistically and spatially, not metaphorically or symbolically. Finally, chapter 5 presents some of the implications of this claim for understanding Hebrews, the canonical witness about heaven, and theological claims regarding Jesus' ascension.

ISBN: 9798382304663Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122820
Biblical studies.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Early Jewish Literature

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