Hebrews (Abingdon New Testament Commentaries)

Pfitzner interprets Hebrews as a passionate appeal directed by its author to a community that is in danger of surrendering the distinctiveness of its faith. Through an examination of its structure rhetorical devices and arguments he shows Hebrews to be a splendid example of extended exhortation with a recurring pattern of formal introduction scriptural quotation exposition and application. By seeing the message of Hebrews as a word exhortation (13:22) to a community in crisis Pfitzner is able to set its distinctive Christology firmly in its original social historical and cultural context.