{"id":14505,"date":"2013-01-31T13:27:23","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T20:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/scriptorium\/?p=14505"},"modified":"2013-01-31T13:27:23","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T20:27:23","slug":"hebrews-out-loud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/scriptorium\/2013\/01\/hebrews-out-loud\/","title":{"rendered":"Hebrews Out Loud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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The book of Hebrews seems to have been written for the ear. Or, if that claim is true, perhaps it should be made in this form: the sermon to the Hebrews was designed to be spoken aloud.<\/p>\n

The author of Hebrews frequently uses words that indicate he is thinking of the sermon as oral speech rather than written text (2:5, 5:11, 6:9, 8:1, 9:5, 11:32). He doesn\u2019t use expressions like like \u201cas I wrote about earlier,\u201d but \u201cas I was saying.\u201d As William Lane argues in the preface of his Hebrews commentary,<\/p>\n

Hebrews was prepared for oral delivery to a specific community\u2026 Hebrews is a sermon prepared to be read aloud to a group of auditors who will receive its message not primarily through reading and leisured reflection but orally. Reading the document aloud entails oral performance, providing oral clues to those who listen to the public reading of the sermon\u2026. Hebrews was crafted to communicate its point as much aurally as logically.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course we have it as written text, and I am glad for the chance to study it in closer detail than I can do with a spoken sermon. But once you\u2019ve examined the details, and especially once you\u2019ve looked up and pondered the Old Testament texts quoted and echoed in Hebrews, there\u2019s nothing better than hearing Hebrews read aloud. Especially if you can hear it read well.<\/p>\n

At the ESV site you can listen to a recitation<\/a> of the entire book. The speaker is Ryan Ferguson, who I believe is reciting the book from memory (!) rather than reading from a script. He is also reading it with considerable drama, but not too much (this is a matter of taste I\u2019m sure).<\/p>\n

My home church, Grace Evangelical Free Church of La Mirada, has a tradition of starting every sermon series with a special reading service. These service as great even when the book we read aloud is not especially designed for the ear. But when it\u2019s Hebrews, the effect is especially powerful. You can click here<\/a> to hear or view the January 13 reading service (just the Scripture parts, not the sung worship artfully interspersed throughout). \u00a0We\u2019re now a couple of weeks into expository preaching on the text, which is moving along at a deliberately slow pace through a book that will take us a year to finish.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to re-post a few 2010 blog posts about the book of Hebrews this week and weekend. Then I\u2019ll begin posting some new thoughts on Hebrews as my church preaches through it and I teach a course on it this term at the\u00a0Los Angeles Bible Training School<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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