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
Paul David Landgraf, The Structure of Hebrews: A Word of Exhortation in Light of the Day of Atonement
Jon Laansma, Wheaton College, Hidden Stories in Hebrews: Cosmology and Theology

Part 2: Jesus Christ in Hebrews
Todd Still, Baylor University, Christos as Pistos: The Faithfulness of Jesus in the Epistle to the Hebrews
Christopher Richardson, University of Aberdeen, The Passion: Reconsidering Hebrews 5:7-8
David Moffitt, Duke University, "If Another Priest Arises": Jesus' Resurrection and the High Priestly Christology of Hebrews
Ardel Caneday, Northwestern College, St Paul, The Eschatological World Already Subjected to the Son: The Oikoumene of Hebrews 1:6 and the Son's Enthronement
Bryan Whitfield, Mercer University, Pioneer and Perfecter: Joshua Tradition and the Christology of Hebrews

Part 3: Hebrews, the Old Testament and Second Temple Judaism
Craig Blomberg, Denver Seminary, "But We See Jesus": The Relationship between the Son of Man in Hebrews 2:6 and 9 and the Implications for English Translations
Barry Joslin, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Hebrews 7:1-10:18 and the Mosaic Law
Petrus Gräbe, Regent University, The New Covenant and Christian Identity in Hebrews
Gareth Cockerill, Wesley Biblical Seminary, Melchizedek without Speculation: Hebrews 7 and Genesis 14
Philip Church, University of Otago, "The True Tent which the Lord has Pitched": Balaam's Oracles in Second Temple Judaism and in Hebrews
Dennis Lindsay, Northwest Christian College,  OR, Pistis and Emunah: The Nature of Faith in the Epistle to the Hebrews.

Part 4: Hebrews and the Roman Empire
Steven Muir, Concordia University College of Alberta, The Anti-Imperial Rhetoric of Hebrews 1:3: Charakter as a Double-Edged Sword

Part 5: Hebrews in Early Christianity
Claire Clivaz, University of Lausanne, Heb 5.7, Jesus' Prayer on the Mount of Olives and Jewish Christianity: Hearing Early Christian Voices in Canonical and Apocryphal Texts
Ilaria Ramelli, Catholic University of Milan, 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.