Joseph, Simon J. “‘In the Days of His Flesh, He Offered Up Prayers’: Reimagining the Sacrifice(s) of Jesus in the Letter to the Hebrews.” Journal of Biblical Literature 140.1 (2021): 207–27.
Abstract:
"The Letter to the Hebrews is
generally regarded as the most sacrificial text in the New Testament.
This article argues that Hebrews, read within the wider context of
sacrificial discourse in the ancient Mediterranean world, not only
represents a textual moment in the rhetorical dissociation of the early
Jesus movement from the sacrificial cult in Jerusalem but also reflects
the rhetorical obfuscation of Jesus’s sacrificial self-offering as it
was being replaced by an emphasis on the interpretation of Jesus’s death
as sacrifice, with the result being the inevitable sacrifice of the
former for the latter in early Christian discourse."
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