Jesus Our High Priest Ps 110,4 As The Substructure Of Heb 5,1-7,28 von James Kurianal 1. Auflage Jesus Our High Priest Kurianal schnell und portofrei erhältlich bei beck-shop.de DIE FACHBUCHHANDLUNG Peter Lang 2000 Verlag C.H. Beck im Internet: www.beck.de ISBN 978 3 631 36032 3
CONTENTS INTRODUCTION... 11 1. Hebrews' Teaching about the Priesthood of Christ and Ps 110,4 as the Theme of the Study... 11 2. Material Object of the Study: The Delimitation of the Text... 13 3. Formal Object of the Study... 13 4. The Program of the Study... 15 CHAPTER I: STATUS QUAESTIONIS... 17 1. Introduction... 17 2. Heb 5,1-7,28 in the Past Proposals on the Structure of Hebrews... 18 2.1. Different methods used in identifying the structure of Hebrews.... 18 2.1.1. Thematic or content-oriented method.... 18 2.1.2. Rhetorical criticism... 20 2.1.3. Literary analysis... 20 2.1.4. Text-linguistic approach... 22 2.2. The understanding of the unity of Heb 5,1-7,28 according to the four different methodologies... 23 3. The Present-day Research on the OT Quotations in Hebrews... 24 4. Thematic Studies Involving 5,1-7,28... 26 5. Conclusion... 28 CHAPTER II: A BRIEF EXEGESIS OF Ps 110... 29 1. Introduction... 29 2. Structure of Ps 110... 30 3. Exegesis of Ps 110... 31 3.1. The oracle of Yahweh (vv. 1-4)... 31 3.2. The realisation of the promise (vv. 5-7).... 39 4. Conclusion... 44 CHAPTER III: AN EXEGESIS OF HEBREWS 5,1-10... 47 1. Introduction... 47 2. Some Preliminary Observations... 47 3. Exegesis of Heb 5,1-10... 48 3.1. Every High Priest (5,1-4)... 49 3.2. Christ the new High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek (5,5-10)... 60 3.2.1.Two messianic oracles: Pss 2,7 and 110,4b (Heb 5,5b-6)... 63 7
3.2.2.Christ, having been perfected through suffering, is declared High Priest (5,7-10)... 65 4. The Relationship between 5,1-4 and 5,5-10... 77 5. The Literary Unity of 5,1-10... 81 6. Conclusion... 82 CHAPTER IV: AN EXEGESIS OF HEB 7,1-25... 85 1. Introduction... 85 2. Priest Melchizedek as Superior to the Levitical Priests: Heb 7,1-10... 86 2.1. Structure of 7,1-10... 86 2.2. Presentation of Melchizedek: Heb 7,1-3... 87 2.3. Melchizedek superior to Abraham and to the Levitical Priests: Heb 7,4-10... 97 3. The Order of Melchizedek and the Order of Aaron: Heb 7,11-19... 106 3.1. The Structure of Heb 7,11-19... 106 3.2. The order of Melchizedek replaces the order of Aaron: Heb 7,11-19... 106 4. A Priest Forever: Heb 7,20-25... 128 4.1. The structure of Heb 7,20-25... 128 4.2. An exegesis of Heb 7,20-25... 129 5. Conclusion... 137 CHAPTER V: THE THEME OF HIGH PRIESTHOOD IN HEB 7,26-28... 139 1. Introduction... 139 2. An Exegesis of Heb 7,26-28... 140 2.1. A befitting High Priest for us (Heb 7,26)... 141 2.2. Sacrifices Made by the New High Priest and the Old High Priests (Heb 7,27)... 149 2.3. The Son Appointed by the Word of the Oath-Taking and Men Appointed the Law (Heb 7,28)... 153 2.3.1. The Son of God our High Priest... 154 2.3.2. Ps 110,4 as the Word of the Oath-Taking (b 2,6yog bpiccogocsiocc)... 158 5. Conclusion... 159 CHAPTER VI: THE INTERPRETATION OF PS 110,4 IN HEBREWS AND THE JEWISH BACKGROUND... 161 1. Introduction... 161 2. Jewish Traditions an Melchizedek... 162 2.1.Philo... 162 2.1.1 De Abrahamo 235... 163 8
2.1.2 De Congressu Eruditionis Gratia 99... 164 2.1.3. Legum Allegoriae 3.79-82... 165 2.1.4. The Fragment on Gen 14,20... 168 2.1.5. Philo considered Melchizedek as human priest and king... 168 2.2. Qumran... 169 2.2.1. 4Q`Amram b 2,1-6;3,1-2... 171 2.2.2. 4Q401 11 1-3... 172 2.2.3. 11QMelch (11Q13)... 172 2.2.4. 1QapGen xxii 14-17... 178 2.3. Josephus... 179 3. The Jewish Exegetical Methods... 180 3.1. Exegetical methods in Qumran... 181 3.1.1. Pesher... 181 3.2. Exegetical methods in Philo... 183 4. Levitical Priests in the Dead Sea Scrolls and in Philo... 185 4.1. Levitical Priests in the Dead Sea Scrolls... 186 4.2. Levitical priesthood in the Philonic corpus... 187 5. An Evaluation of the Midrash on Ps 110,4 in Hebrews against the Jewish Background... 189 5.1.The figure of Melchizedek in Hebrews, Qumran documents and in Philo... 189 5.2. Levitical priests in Hebrews, Qumran documents and Philo... 193 5.3. Exegetical methods in Hebrews, Qumran documents and Philo... 193 5.4. Messianism and eschatology in Hebrews, Qumran documents and Philo... 194 6. Conclusion... 196 CHAPTER VII: PRIESTHOOD ACCORDING TO THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK... 199 1. Introduction... 199 2. The New Priesthood: Is It a Continuation of the Old One?... 199 3. Is the New Priest Similar to Melchizedek the Priest and King?... 203 4. The Specific Characteristics of the New High Priest... 207 4.1. The humanity of the new High Priest... 212 4.2. The eternity of the new High Priest... 215 4.3. The new High Priest intervenes for those who approach God through him (7,25)... 216 4.4. The High Priest made-perfect (TEXE - twegig)... 219 5. Conclusion... 233 CHAPTER VIII THE UNITY AND STRUCTURE OF HEB 5,1-7,28... 235 1. Introduction... 235 2. The Unity and Structure of 5,1-7,28... 237 9
2.1. Inclusion... 242 2.2. Contrast... 243 2.3. Lexical cohesion... 244 2.4. Ps 110,4 and the thematic cohesion of 5,1-7,28... 245 2.5. Distant hook words... 252 3. Implication of Understanding 5,1-7,28 as an Embedded Discourse... 253 4. The Title 'High Priest' and Ps 110,4... 257 5. Conclusion... 259 CONCLUSION... 263 APPENDIX I... 269 APPENDIX II: Heb 5,1-7,28: An Embedded Discourse... 270 APPENDIX III: A Translation of Heb 5,1-10; 7,1-28... 274 ABBREVIATIONS... 279 BIBLIOGRAPHY... 281 1. Texts, References and Commentaries... 281 2. Miscellaneous Works... 287 10