book that I read...

i'm now in the class of 'Hebrews'...
not the language but the book in the bible...
prior to the class, we were required to read the text book...
by Barnabas Lindars (suppose to be the mentor of D.A. Carson)...
Since i dun wanna fall asleep in the class, let me write a bit abt the book

here it's the review of the book:
This is undeniably a finely researched-written book by Barnabas Lindars that is focusing on the main theme for the Book of Hebrews in the New Testament. His thesis for the book where the purpose for this writing was the issue of the believers’ guilty conscience through unresolved post-baptismal sin can really be very convincing if the reader of his book would to just take his book as the only reference for studying of the writing. From the Septuagint, Apocrypha, New Testament and other Jewish writing, he expediently quoted them to make sure that his case was strong and convincing.

He claims that the situation to which Hebrews was written was viewed by the author as critical and urgent - Christian believers were in danger of reverting to Judaism because they had no practical (tangible) way of dealing with their consciousness of sin as before under the Jewish cultic system of sacrifice. Setting the letter in view of such a situation brings to light the entire thought-world in which the letter breathes and moves and Lindars is quick to return to the issue at hand as he wades through the letter's theology; this is much preferred to breaking a letter artificially into categories and then treating each subject as distinct.