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| Hebrews for Everyone (For Everyone) | 
 enlarge | Author: Tom Wright
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (2 reviews)
Sales Rank: 29048
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5 x 0.6
ISBN: 0664227937
Dewey Decimal Number: 227.87077
EAN: 9780664227937
ASIN: 0664227937
Publication Date: March 2004
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Product Description
This text combines Tom Wright's translation of the New Testament with his comments on each passage.
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 Very useful and engaging October 17, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This addition to Tom Wright's "For Everyone" series succeeds with flying colors for both the professional biblical scholar looking for a basic overview of the text and for the pastor/student looking to go deeper into the text to find the nuggets of wisdom and hope that are there. Wright is arguably one of the best of modern theologians and this popular commentary on Hebrews is a good example of why.
 Very Readable, but great scholarship December 30, 2005
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
As a pastor I feel comfortable recommending this commentary and the entire Everyone series to them, because not only are these commentaries excellent scholarly interpretation, but are very readable. N T Wright has the ability to write in a very technical scholarly style or in a manner that everyone can understand and he masterfully demonstrates that fact with the Everyone series.
Wright provides a translation of the entire Epistle that starts each section, then he tells an applicable story that leads into his discussion of the meaning of the text.
Wright captures the essence of the meaning of the Epistle. What is great about this commentary is not just the fact its easy to read, but Wright's interpretation makes sense of the entire epistle and really he leaves very little unturned in this book. He takes seriously the Jewish cultural milieu of the writer and audience of Hebrews and does not succumb to the popular trend to make the writer an eclectic Greco- Roman theologian that relied primarily on Greco-Roman sources as opposed to Jewish sources. He avoids the idea that Paul could not have possibly been connected to anyone connected with Palestinian Christianity. The writer of Hebrews was Jewish and was addressing the concerns of Jewish and maybe even Gentile believers about the relevance of the Temple in Jerusalem.
Wright has many great stories and illustrations in all of his Everyone commentaries, but perhaps his best one was no doubt in his comments on Hebrews 8:1-6. Here he takes table-top soccer (he calls it football) and says that no one would mistake it for the real thing. He says that if this table soccer game was given to a family that knew nothing of the real thing they might imagine it to be the real thing. He then says that in the same the earthly Temple was not the real thing and that the real thing is in heaven. The Temple was just a copy of the reality, but the Jewish establishment thought it was the real thing.
This was just one of the many great illustrations that you will find in the commentary and his interpretations, though not infallible, are certainly reliable.
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