This book challenges the general tendency of understanding the Epistle to the Hebrews against a Hellenistic background and suggests that the Epistle should be understood in the light of the Jewish apocalyptic tradition. The author especially argues for the importance of the theological symbolism of Sinai and Zion Heb. 12:18-24 as it provides the Epistles theological background as well as the rhetorical basis of the superiority motif of Jesus throughout the Epistle.