The book of "Hebrews" has often been the Cinderella of the New Testament, overlooked and marginalized; and yet it is one of the most interesting and theologically significant books in the New Testament. This book examines the theology of the book in the light of its ancient historical context.

Part 1: The Structure of Hebrews; The Structure of Hebrews: A Word of Exhortation in Light of the Day of Atonement; Hidden Stories in Hebrews: Cosmology and Theology; Part 2: Jesus Christ in Hebrews. Christos as Pistos: The Faithfulness of Jesus in the Epistle to the Hebrews; The Passion: Reconsidering Hebrews 5:7-8; "If Another Priest Arises": Jesus' Resurrection and the High Priestly Christology of Hebrews; The Eschatological World Already Subjected to the Son: The Oikoumene of Hebrews 1:6 and the Son's Enthronement Pioneer and Perfecter: Joshua Tradition and the Christology of Hebrews; Part 3: Hebrews, the Old Testament and Second Temple Judaism; "But We See Jesus": The Relationship between the Son of Man in Hebrews 2:6 and 9 and the Implications for English Translations Hebrews 7:1-10:18 and the Mosaic Law; The New Covenant and Christian Identity in Hebrews Melchizedek without Speculation: Hebrews 7 and Genesis 14 "The True Tent which the Lord has Pitched": Balaam's Oracles in Second Temple Judaism and in Hebrews; Pistis and Emunah: The Nature of Faith in the Epistle to the Hebrews.; Part 4: Hebrews and the Roman Empire; The Anti-Imperial Rhetoric of Hebrews 1:3: Charakter as a Double-Edged Sword; Part 5: Hebrews in Early Christianity; Heb 5.7, Jesus' Prayer on the Mount of Olives and Jewish Christianity: Hearing Early Christian Voices in Canonical and Apocryphal Texts The Universal and Eternal Validity of Jesus' Priestly Sacrifice: The Epistle to the Hebrews in Support of Origen's Theory of Apokatastasis.

Formerly the Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement, a book series that explores the many aspects of New Testament study including historical perspectives, social-scientific and literary theory, and theological, cultural and contextual approaches. The Early Christianity in Context series, a part of JSNTS, examines the birth and development of early Christianity up to the end of the third century CE. The series places Christianity in its social, cultural, political and economic context. The European Seminar on Christian Origins and Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus Supplement are also part of JSNTS.