Endurance in Suffering: Hebrews 12:1-13 in its Rhetorical, Religious, and Philosophical Context
Endurance in Suffering: Hebrews 12:1-13 in its Rhetorical, Religious, and Philosophical Context

Endurance in Suffering: Hebrews 12:1-13 in its Rhetorical, Religious, and Philosophical Context

in Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series

by N. Clayton Croy

Pages 264
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Published 2005
ISBN-13 9780521018913
Hebrews 12:1-13 portrays the suffering of its readers with two images: an athletic contest, and God's fatherly discipline. N. Clayton Croy places this important passage in the context of Jewish and Greco-Roman traditions. He argues that the idea of "training" unites the passage, which presents Jesus as the supreme athlete. It also supports a nonpunitive understanding of discipline, in which God's children undergo a positive process of education. These ideas combine to support a call in Hebrews to faithful endurance rather than repentance.

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