Response to Nanos: Renewed Covenantalism, Not Triumphalism or Supersessionism

Richard B. Hays explored the problem of Hebrews’ supersessionism in his monograph,  “ ‘Here We Have No Lasting City’: New Covenantalism in Hebrews,”[1] in which he documented the recent phenomenon of scholars beginning to question the assumption that the ancient homily depicted a supersessionist theology which left no place for the Torah or for the historical Jewish people.[2] Hays’ answer was that Hebrews’ “New Covenantalism” contains “both continuity and discontinuity;” while Jesus is portrayed as “the climactic figure of [Israel’s] story . . . he becomes the media