Reading Hebrews and 1 Peter from Majority World Perspectives

Sofanit T. Abebe is a Lecturer in New Testament and Greek at Oak Hill College, UK, having previously served as Lecturer, Program Leader and Dean of Students at the Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology, Ethiopia. Elizabeth W. Mburu is the Langham Literature Regional Coordinator (Anglophone Africa) and an associate professor of New Testament and Greek at Africa International University, Kenya. Abeneazer G. Urga lectures in New Testament and Greek at the Evangelical Theological College in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and is an adjunct professor at Columbia International University, USA, and Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology, Ethiopia.

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Introduction: Hebrews and 1 Peter: Reading for Relevance by Grant LeMarquand
1. Why Did Paul Write Hebrews? Reasons for the Composition of Hebrews in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church’s Andemta Commentary Tradition, Abeneazer G. Urga
2. Salvation through Jesus’s Sahala: A Batak Reading of Jesus’s Victory over the Devil and Death in Hebrews, Chakrita M. Saulina
3. Jesus: Our Exemplar of Solidarity in Hebrews, Nelson Morales Fredes
4. A Contextualized Chinese Theology of Human Nature: Dualistic or Holistic-Integrative? Watchman Nee’s Reading of Hebrews 4:12, Jacob Chengwei Feng
5.Entugchanó in Hebrews 7:25 and its Translation in the Millennium Amharic Bible, Nebeyou A. Terefe
6. Hide or Seek: Perseverance in the Composite Citations of Hebrews 10:37–38, Marie J. Fortin
7. Jesus’ Sacrifice in Hebrews: A Xhosa Christian Reading of Hebrews 10:1–18, Axolile N., M. Qina
8. Rahab Reimagined: A Ghanaian Perspective on Hebrews 11.31 and its Resonance with Female Sex Workers, Alice M. Nsiah and Gifty A. K. Dei Dawson
9. Christian Identity and Witness: An Intercultural Reading of 1 Peter in the Context of Persecution, Roji Thomas George
10. Living as Aliens and Exiles: Reading 1 Peter from A Malaysian Perspective, Kar Yong Lim
11. Salvation through Suffering: An Ethiopic Reading of Selected Texts of 1 Peter, Yimenu Adimass Belay
12. An Abundance of Riches: A Response from a Minority World Perspective, Sigurd Grindheim
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