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| Editor's Preface | |
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| Author's Preface | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Hebrews in Its Environment | |
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| The Pastor Who Wrote Hebrews | |
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| Authorship and Canonicity | |
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| Candidates for Authorship - A Review | |
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| The Pastor's Sermon | |
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| The Pastor's Congregation | |
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| What the Sermon Reveals about Its Hearers | |
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| Were These Hearers Jewish or Gentile in Background? | |
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| The Pastor's Worldview | |
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| The Pastor's Dependence on the Christian Tradition | |
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| The Pastor and the Heavenly/Futuristic Eschatology of Apocalyptic Writings | |
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| The Pastor and the Influence of Neo-Platonism | |
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| When Did the Pastor Write This Sermon? | |
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| The Message of Hebrews | |
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| The Sermon's Use of the Old Testament | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Fundamental Assumptions | |
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| The Psalms and Related Passages - "God Has Spoken" | |
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| The Pentateuch - Moses Bears "Witness to the Things That Would Be Spoken" | |
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| The Historical Books (Joshua through Nehemiah) | |
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| Hebrews 3:4-4:11; 7:1-10; and 12:18-24 | |
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| Continuity and Typology | |
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| Hebrews and Contemporary Jewish Use of the Old Testament | |
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| Contemporary Relevance | |
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| The Sermon's Rhetorically Effective Structure | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Hebrews 1:1-2:18 and 12:4-19: God Has Spoken from the Mountain | |
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| Hebrews 3:1-4:13 and 10:19-12:3: On Pilgrimage to the Promised Home | |
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| Hebrews 1:1-4:13 and 10:19-12:29: The Disobedient and the Faithful | |
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| Hebrews 13:1-25: The Peroration (and Letter Ending) | |
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| Hebrews 4:14-10:18: Entering the Most Holy Place | |
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| The Rhetorical Shape of Hebrews and Its Use of the Old Testament | |
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| The Rhetorical Shape of Hebrews and Ancient Rhetoric | |
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| The Sermon's Abiding Message | |
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| The Sermon's Outline | |
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| Text, Exposition, and Notes | |
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| A Very Short History of the Disobedient People of God (1:1-4:13) | |
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| Sinai Revisited: God Has Spoken in the Eternal, Incarnate, Now Exalted Son (1:1-2:18) | |
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| God Has Spoken through His Son (1:1-4) | |
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| The Incomparable Majesty of the Eternal, Exalted Son (1:5-14) | |
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| The Urgency of Attending to God's Son-Mediated Revelation (2:1-4) | |
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| The Crucial Importance of the Incarnate, Suffering Son (2:5-18) | |
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| Tested at Kadesh-Barnea: Avoid the Congregation of the Disobedient (3:1-4:13) | |
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| Consider Jesus, A Son over the House of God (3:1-6) | |
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| Avoid the Company of the Faithless Generation (3:7-19) | |
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| Pursue the Blessing Lost by the Faithless Generation (4:1-11) | |
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| You Are Accountable before the Word of God (4:12-13) | |
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| The Son's High Priesthood - Resource and Urgency for Perseverance (4:14-10:18) | |
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| The Life of Faith and the High Priesthood of the Son (4:14-5:10) | |
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| Embrace This Great High Priest (4:14-16) | |
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| The New High Priest and the Old (5:1-10) | |
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| Don't Be Unresponsive but Grasp What Christ Has Provided (5:11-6:20) | |
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| Reverse Your Unnatural Regression (5:11-6:3) | |
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| Avoid the Danger of Apostasy (6:4-8) | |
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| Shun Apostasy and Embrace the Community of the Faithful (6:9-12) | |
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| Trust God's Promise Verified by God's Oath (6:13-20) | |
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| Our High Priest's Legitimacy and Eternity (7:1-28) | |
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| Melchizedek Is Greater than Levi (7:1-10) | |
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| The Priest in "the Likeness of Melchizedek" Displaces Aaron (7:11-25) | |
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| This Priest Is Exactly the Kind of Priest We Need (7:26-28) | |
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| Our High Priest's All-Sufficient Sacrifice: A Symphony in Three Movements (8:1-10:18) | |
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| First Movement: The New Promised (8:1-13) | |
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| A Minister of the Sanctuary and True Tent (8:1-2) | |
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| A Different Sacrifice (8:3-6) | |
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| A Better Covenant (8:7-13) | |
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| Second Movement: The Old Antiquated; the New Foreshadowed (9:1-22) | |
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| Limitations of the Earthly Sanctuary (9:1-10) | |
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| The All-Sufficiency of Christ's Sacrifice (9:11-15) | |
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| Freed from the Condemnation of a Broken Covenant (9:16-22) | |
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| Third Movement: The New Explained (9:23-10:18) | |
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| Sanctuary: "In the Presence of God for Us" (9:23-24) | |
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| Sacrifice - "Once for All" (9:25-10:4) | |
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| Sacrifice - "To Do Your Will, O God" (10:5-10) | |
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| Sacrifice - "He Sat Down Forever" (10:11-14) | |
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| Covenant - "Where There Is Release" (10:15-18) | |
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| A History of the Faithful People of God From Creation to Consummation (10:19-12:29) | |
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| The Life of Persevering Faith and the High Priesthood of the Son (10:19-39) | |
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| Avail Yourselves of This Great Priest (10:19-25) | |
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| You Are More Accountable Because of This High Priest (10:26-31) | |
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| Pursue the Blessing Promised the Faithful (10:32-39) | |
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| The Past History of the People of God until the Coming of Jesus (11:1-12:3) | |
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| Join the Company of the Faithful of Old (11:1-40) | |
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| From Creation to Noah: The Foundations of Faith (11:1-7) | |
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| Abraham, Faith at Its Best: Perseverance in an Men World (11:8-22) | |
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| Moses, Faith under Stress: A Story of Resistance and Triumph (11:23-31) | |
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| The Rest of the Story - A "Better Resurrection" (11:32-38) | |
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| "They without Us …" (11:39-40) | |
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| Keep Your Eyes on Jesus, Seated at God's Right Hand (12:1-3) | |
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| The Present History of the People of God until the Consummation (12:4-29) | |
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| God's True Sons and Daughters Endure the Discipline of Suffering (12:4-13) | |
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| Don't Sell Your Birthright, as Esau Did (12:14-17) | |
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| God's Firstborn Enter His Presence through the Exalted Jesus (12:18-24) | |
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| God Will Speak "Once More" at the Final Judgment (12:25-29) | |
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| Instructions for the Life of Gratitude and Godly Fear (13:1-25) | |
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| The Community of the Faithful and the Life of Gratitude and Godly Fear (13:1-6) | |
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| The Unbelieving World and the Life of Gratitude and Godly Fear (13:7-17) | |
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| A Sermon Sent as a Letter (13:18-25) | |
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| Indexes | |
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| Subjects | |
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| Names | |
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| Scripture and Other Ancient Texts | |