A Pastoral

The Epistle to the Hebrews

“…The Epistle to the Hebrews and Community Maintenance in the Epistle to the Hebrews (SBLDS 152;Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995), and his commentary in which he expounds Hebrews in terms of honor/shame and the patron/client relationship. See also the summary in Lincoln, A Guide,[48][49][50][51] Several important considerations are often overlooked when examining this issue. First, Hebrews is completely free from any kind of ethnic distinction.78 The author never differentiates Jews from Gentiles or Greeks from barbarians.…”

“…Cf. Koester,48, who emphasizes that the hearers' relationship to Greco-Roman culture, to the Jewish subculture, and to the Christian community is more important than ethnicity.…”