Judson D. Greene. Cosmic Eschatology in Hebrews: Creation, Cosmology, and the World to Come. Novum Testamentum Supplement 198. Brill, 2026.
"Does Hebrews anticipate the annihilation of the material world or its
renewal? This monograph offers a fresh approach to the scholarly impasse
on this question by reading Hebrews against presuppositions shared
across Jewish, Christian, Platonic, Stoic, Epicurean, Valentinian, and
Gnostic backgrounds. Through comparative, philological, and exegetical
analysis, this study challenges long-held assumptions—such as that
Platonic dualism is “anti-cosmic” or that μετάθεσις means
“removal/destruction”—and offers a new synthesis of Hebrews's cosmology
and eschatology: Hebrews envisions the final transformation of the
cosmos in which God’s people will ultimately dwell on the renewed earth."
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