Naked Bible 173: Introducing the Book of Hebrews

The Naked Bible Podcast

Dr. Michael S. Heiser

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

This episode launches the next book study on the podcast: the book of Hebrews. After discussing some preliminaries about the book, the episode preps listeners to the fact that Hebrews is a book that draws heavily on the Old Testament. That strategy of the anonymous author means more than simply quoting the Old Testament. Rather, there are more significant hermeneutical issues to consider—issues that will reverberate throughout the book.

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0:26.4	Welcome to the Naked Bible Podcast, episode 173, introducing the book of Hebrews.
0:32.1	I'm the layman, Tray Strickland, and he's the scholar, Dr. Michael Heizer.
0:36.0	Hey, Mike, how are you? Good, good. Finally got here. We finally did.
0:41.4	Into the winter. I know something about winning, so it's nice to get into the book that one
0:47.0	or pole. We appreciate everybody that voted and here we are, Hebrews. Yeah, here we are.
0:53.3	You just had to throw that in again, didn't you? Of course.
0:57.2	Every day until football kicks off, I guess. I don't know.
1:00.5	Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, on to better things.
1:05.0	Which would be, which would be the book of Hebrews.
1:07.8	Oh, okay, a winner, right? The one that a winner that got you to stop.
1:13.2	So from one winner to the another, another winner.
1:17.5	Yeah, that's just what I was thinking.
1:19.0	All right. Well, as we do when we get into book studies, we always take the first episode to
1:24.3	introduce the book. So we aren't going to be actually getting into chapter one today. This is
1:31.6	going to be backgrounding. So introducing the book of Hebrews itself. We're going to talk about a
1:35.6	few things about the book that down the road will matter as far as how we might be influenced to
1:45.9	think about this or that word or this or that turn of a phrase or this or that context of something.
1:52.1	So it's important, even though it is introductory. So we might as well just starting with the
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