Outputs (15)

Supersessionism and the Cult Attitude of Stephen and Hebrews (2024)
Journal Article
Moore, N. J. (2024). Supersessionism and the Cult Attitude of Stephen and Hebrews. Irish Theological Quarterly, 89(2), 133-150. https://doi.org/10.1177/00211400241230995

In the face of continued debates about Christian supersessionism with regard to Judaism, this article revisits two texts which have been thought to display the harshest anti-temple attitudes in the New Testament: Stephen’s speech in Acts 7, and the L... Read More about Supersessionism and the Cult Attitude of Stephen and Hebrews.

Heaven and temple in the Second Temple period: A taxonomy (2023)
Journal Article
Moore, N. J. (2023). Heaven and temple in the Second Temple period: A taxonomy. Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, 33(1), 75-93. https://doi.org/10.1177/09518207211052237

It is a commonplace of ancient Near Eastern worldviews that temples have cosmic significance. This understanding persists and develops in the Second Temple period, with numerous texts witnessing to a widely held belief that the Jerusalem temple refle... Read More about Heaven and temple in the Second Temple period: A taxonomy.

‘The True Tabernacle’ of Hebrews 8:2: Future Dwelling with People or Heavenly Dwelling Place? (2021)
Journal Article

Many scholars hold that the Letter to the Hebrews portrays heaven as God’s true tabernacle, the original from which the Mosaic tabernacle was derived. Recently Philip Church, building on work by Lincoln Hurst, has argued that the heavenly tabernacle... Read More about ‘The True Tabernacle’ of Hebrews 8:2: Future Dwelling with People or Heavenly Dwelling Place?.

‘He Saw Heaven Opened’: Heavenly Temple and Universal Mission in Luke-Acts (2021)
Journal Article

Numerous scholars have argued that in Luke-Acts the location of sacred space or divine presence passes from the Jerusalem temple to Jesus, Christian believers, or both; in Acts, this transfer is understood as integral to the universal mission. The pr... Read More about ‘He Saw Heaven Opened’: Heavenly Temple and Universal Mission in Luke-Acts.

Preserving Scriptural Harmony: Origen on Jude 3 and συμφωνία in the Commentary on John (2021)
Journal Article

Only one allusion to the phrase “the faith once delivered to the saints” (Jude 3) survives from the early church, in Book 10 of Origen’s Commentary on John. This article establishes that Origen is offering a close paraphrase of this saying, and sugge... Read More about Preserving Scriptural Harmony: Origen on Jude 3 and συμφωνία in the Commentary on John.

One Baptism Once: The Origins of the Unrepeatability of Christian Baptism (2020)
Journal Article

This article questions the assumption that the uniqueness of Christian baptism goes back to the baptism of John. Against the backdrop of Jewish immersion baths, John's baptism was probably repeatable. A two-stage development of Christian baptism, fir... Read More about One Baptism Once: The Origins of the Unrepeatability of Christian Baptism.

Sacrifice, Session and Intercession: The End of Christ’s Offering in Hebrews (2020)
Journal Article

A growing number of scholars have argued that Christ’s offering in Hebrews is not limited to the cross but extends into heaven; in recent work David Moffitt contends that Christ’s heavenly, atoning offering is perpetual and coextensive with his inter... Read More about Sacrifice, Session and Intercession: The End of Christ’s Offering in Hebrews.

‘Vaine Repeticions’? Re-evaluating Regular Levitical Sacrifices in Hebrews 9:1–14 (2020)
Book Chapter
Moore, N. J. (2020). ‘Vaine Repeticions’? Re-evaluating Regular Levitical Sacrifices in Hebrews 9:1–14. In E. F. Mason, & D. M. Moffitt (Eds.), Son, Sacrifice, and Great Shepherd: Studies on the Epistle to the Hebrews (115-134). Mohr Siebeck. https://doi.org/10.1628/978-3-16-159190-7

Heaven’s Revolving Door? Cosmology, Entrance, and Approach in Hebrews (2019)
Journal Article

The significance of “entering” and “approaching” terminology in Hebrews has been contested, with some scholars viewing these terms as clearly distinct and others arguing they are fully synonymous. This debate is often framed in eschatological terms:... Read More about Heaven’s Revolving Door? Cosmology, Entrance, and Approach in Hebrews.

A Perfect Priest: Studies in the Letter to the Hebrews by Albert Vanhoye (2018)
Book