Download or read book Strangers on the Earth written by James W. Thompson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-04-24 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to what we might imagine from its title, the Epistle to the Hebrews is immersed in Hellenistic thought. Its author demonstrates an acquaintance with Greco-Roman rhetoric, and often supports his arguments with the assumptions of Hellenistic philosophy. While he shares the apocalyptic worldview of other Jews in this period, he recasts it with the language of Middle Platonism.