Inauguration or Day of Atonement?: A Response to Norman Young's "Old Testament Background to Hebrews 6:19-20 Revisited"

The Day of Dedication or the Day of Atonement ? the Old Testament Background to Hebrews 6 : 19 - 20 Revisited

The greatest respect an author can receive is when another scholar offers a rejoinder to one of his articles. In the spring edition of AUSS, Richard Davidson has done me the honor of offering a criticism of my article in the same issue.' Davidson agrees that the veil mentioned in Heb 6:19 is the inner and not the outer veil of the tabernacle. This abandons the position so tenaciously defended b...

Christ's Entry "Within the Veil" in Hebrews 6:19-20: The Old Testament Background

Atonement: the Rite of Healing

There has recently been a number of books on the Christian understanding of atonement. What has been fascinating for me is the extent to which these books do, or more often do not, use the Old Testament material on atonement as the basis for what they have to say. The New Testament speaks in a variety of ways about atonement, and this has become the centre of Christian dogmatics; but this ‘aton...

Christ as Once for All Sacrifice: a Cultural Reading of Hebrews

The practice of sacrifices to the ancestors is still prevalent among some African Christians and it is inspired by various factors such as religious considerations or political aspirations through African renaissance. Furthermore, scholars argue as to whether this practice of sacrifices to the ancestors is Biblical or not. This article aims to determine that, from Hebrews, the demise of Old Tes...

Reading Heb 6:4-6 in Light of the Old Testament

PERHAPS the most significant, yet perplexing, feature of the book of Hebrews is the so-called warning passages which dot its literary landscape (2:1-4; 3:7-4:13; 5:11-6:12; 10:19-39; 12:14, 29). While all of these warning passages have elicited a variety of commentary and discussion, Heb 6:4-6 has attracted most of the scholarly attention and remains one of the most puzzling and enigmatic for i...