[Georg. A. Walser, Old Testament Quotations in Hebrews: Studies in Their Textual and Contextual Background – recenzja]

The reviewed book is a slightly revised version of the doctoral thesis presented to the University of Leicester in August 2012. Within the last two decades, extensive works concerning the use of OT texts in the Letter to the Hebrews have been published. The reviewed monograph includes some of them: R. Gheorghita, The Role of the Septuagint in Hebrews: An Investigation of Its Influence with Special Consideration to the Use of Hab 2:3-4 in Heb 10:37-38 (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 2. Reihe 160) (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2003); S.E. Docherty, The Use of the Old Testament in Hebrews. A Case Study in Early Jewish Bible Interpretation (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 2. Reihe 260) (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2009); G.J. Steyn, A Quest for the Assumed LXX Vorlage of the Explicit Quotations in Hebrews (Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments 235) (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2011). After the appearance of Walser’s book, another work, namely B.J. Whitfield, Joshua Traditions and the Argument of Hebrews 3 and 4 (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche 194) (Berlin – Boston: De Gruyter 2013), concerning the use of texts from one part of Hebrews, has been published. Focus on this theme corresponds to special relationships between the Letter to the Hebrews and the first part of the Bible: among the books of the second part the theme has one of the highest number of references to the first part