I've recorded a second vodcast, this one on the audience of Hebrews. I won't record again from the office because the sound and lighting are not optimal.
But for your potential entertainment...
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Again, I'm left wondering about some of the imagery. What do "gentile Christians" imagine when the author of Hebrews evokes imagery of the temple and the sacrificial system versus a heavenly temple and so forth? This is why i always assumed the audience to be primarily Jewish.
Would gentile Christians be thinking about the fall of the Jerusalem temple? The "temples" of Greek religion? The sacrificial system of religion like the "blood-cult?" It just seems way more convenient to think of the audience as Jewish, but you caught me...I'm assuming.
The final paragraph gets at the heart of it. It was the final PowerPoint comment on why Anglo-American scholars have not opted for a Jewish audience--it is hard to imagine such investment by Gentiles in the Jerusalem cultus. I'll be addressing this in the third vodcast...
Feel free to disagree :-)
I'll be watching.
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