G. van Oyen | Akateeminen Kirjakauppa

This volume contains the exegetical contributions of a conference held
in Louvain-la-Neuve in 2014. The participants explored the concepts of
border, boundary, and frontier related to Hebrews, not only in the
letter itself, but also in its reception.


The book first focuses on the definition of Hebrews as a text at the
confluence of various cultural worlds: elaborated in the Diaspora, can
the letter/sermon be characterized as a middle course between a
so-called 'Jewish world' and a so-called 'pagan world'? Within the
Jewish cultural world, did it really hold a marginal position? Is its
nuanced attitude toward the priesthood and the Temple the first step
outside Judaism, as it has long been claimed?