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Books to help reading Hebrews

Posted: August 20th, 2018, 6:46 am
by Matthew Longhorn
I have just started working through Hebrews and was hoping someone could direct me to any recent / good resources like the Baylor books?
I guess I could try John owen’s commentary if I were a masochist and wanted something out of date. I have Nida’s handbook but that isn’t overly linguistic in its analysis

Re: Books to help reading Hebrews

Posted: August 20th, 2018, 7:49 pm
by timothy_p_mcmahon
I enjoyed the Word volumes by Lane.

Re: Books to help reading Hebrews

Posted: August 21st, 2018, 10:34 am
by Barry Hofstetter
F.F. Bruce's commentary deals with a lot of the language issues.

Re: Books to help reading Hebrews

Posted: August 21st, 2018, 11:40 am
by Adam Thomas
Not a book, but Exegetical Tools have a series of videos on the Greek of Hebrews, done by Amy Peeler from Wheaton.

You can see a preview on the website to see if it's at a helpful level for you: http://exegeticaltools.com/product/hebr ... ng-videos/

Otherwise, Lane is my go-to for Hebrews.

Re: Books to help reading Hebrews

Posted: August 21st, 2018, 11:45 am
by Matthew Longhorn
Thanks all, I will check those resources out
The first couple of chapters seems remarkably pleasant reading other than 2:3b. Am just certain that it is going to change and I am going to need the assist

Re: Books to help reading Hebrews

Posted: August 21st, 2018, 2:15 pm
by Stirling Bartholomew
Barry Hofstetter wrote: August 21st, 2018, 10:34 am F.F. Bruce's commentary deals with a lot of the language issues.
I remember the manager of bookstore in seminary 40 years ago, Bruce was one of his heroes. I have owned most of his commentaries. Predictable outcome. Similar quality to Leon Morris[1]. Moving forward to the 1990s Paul Ellingworth NIGTC. William Lane spends too much time quoting Germans. You would think Hebrews was written in German. I recall one of his students complaining about his Germanophilia. He taught for a while at SPU.

Cynthia Long Westfall
Discourse Analysis of the Letter to the Hebrews: The Relation­ship Between Form and Meaning (T. & T. Clark, 2006),

[1] When a student asked me about Bruce and Morris, good solid orthodox work.

Re: Books to help reading Hebrews

Posted: August 21st, 2018, 2:30 pm
by Matthew Longhorn
Thanks as normal Sterling. I will see if I can find Cynthia along Westfall as well then
What did you mean by “predictable outcome”?

Re: Books to help reading Hebrews

Posted: August 21st, 2018, 2:46 pm
by Stirling Bartholomew
What did you mean by “predictable outcome”?
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After reading them for decades you know in advance where they will take you. Unlike Bruce Waltke there were no surprises with F.F. Bruce and L. Morris.

Re: Books to help reading Hebrews

Posted: September 14th, 2018, 1:27 am
by Maria285
Personally speaking, I enjoyed the Word volumes by Lane.

Re: Books to help reading Hebrews

Posted: September 14th, 2018, 3:36 am
by Matthew Longhorn
I have been relying on the new international Greek testament commentary and the exegetical summary volume from SIL so far