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Chapter 1: The Puzzle of Hebrews; One Puzzle Among Many; Appeals to the Structural Analysis of Hebrews; Topical Analyses; Earlier Examples; Contemporary Examples; Literary Analyses; F. Büchsel; Rafael Gyllenberg; F. Thien; Leon Vaganay; A. Descamps; Albert Vanhoye; Wolfgang Nauck; Rhetorical Analyses; Hermann Frhr. von Soden; Keijo Nissilä; Walter G. Übelacker; Craig R. Koester; Linguistic Analyses; Observations; Appeals to Conceptual Worlds; Gnosticism; Philo and Middle Platonism; Qumran; The Samaritans; Merkabah Mysticism; Observations; Appeals to Reading Practices

J. Rendel Harris and the Two JoshuasF. C. Synge and Jesus-Joshua; Albert Vanhoye and Numbers 14; George Wesley Buchanan and Hebrews as Homiletical Midrash; David Flusser and Midrashic Fungi; Observations; The Way Forward; Chapter 2: A Wider Intertextuality: Excavating the Cave of Resonance with the History of Scriptural Interpretation; Lessons from Pauline Interpreters; Richard Hays's Echoes of Scripture; Initial Responses to Echoes of Scripture; James A. Sanders; Craig A. Evans; William Scott Green; Christopher D. Stanley; Subsequent Modifications of Echoes of Scripture; Frank Thielman

James M. ScottSylvia C. Keesmaat; Andrew H. Wakefield; Observations; Lessons from Hebrew Bible Interpreters; Michael Fishbane; Aggadic Exegesis; Mantological Exegesis; James L. Kugel; Observations; Chapter 3: Reading Traditions for Num 13-14; Reading Traditions for Num 13-14; Numbers; The Scouts' Expedition; The Scouts' Report; The People's Response; God's Response; The People's Expedition; Deuteronomy; The Scouts' Expedition; The Scouts' Report; The People's Response; God's Response; The People's Expedition; Comparison of the Canonical Accounts; The Scouts' Expedition; The Scouts' Report

The People's ResponseGod's Response; The People's Expedition; General Observations on the Canonical Accounts; Aaron; Caleb and Joshua; Moses; Second Temple Interpretation; Pseudo-Philo; The Scout's Expedition; The Scouts' Report; The People's Response; God's Response; Observations; Josephus; The Scouts' Expedition; The Scouts' Report; The People's Response; God's Response; Observations; Philo; The Scouts' Expedition; The Scouts' Report; The People's Response; God's Response; Observations; Conclusions; Chapter 4: Reading Traditions for Zech 3

Recent Scholarship about the Levi-Priestly TraditionJames C. VanderKam; Robert A. Kugler; James Kugel; Kathryn Lopez; Zechariah 3; Zechariah 3 (MT); Initial Description of the Divine Council Vision; Deliberations of the Divine Council; Excursus: Zechariah 3 and Joshua's Ordination; A Concluding Oracle; Zechariah 3 (LXX); Second Temple Texts and Exegetical Motifs; Introducing the Texts; An Overview of the Specific Motifs to be Explored; The Motif of a Priest in the Divine Council; Aramaic Levi; Jubiliees; Testament of Levi; Joseph and Aseneth; Pirqe Rabbi Eleizer; Conclusions

The Motif of Rebuking the Accuser

The connection between the great high priest and the people of God in Hebrews has proved a central question for many scholars, including Ernst Käsemann. This book examines previous attempts to explain the flow of the argument in Hebrews 3 and 4 and revisits the proposal of J. Rendel Harris, who thought attention to the two Joshuas of the Hebrew Bible was the key to connecting Heb 3:7-4:13 to its frame. It examines Second Temple interpretations of two texts central to the two Joshuas (Numbers 13-14 and Zechariah 3) and concludes with a positive assessment of much of Harris's proposal.