Pauline Authorship of Hebrews

GeorgiabobBeckman beckman at davesworld.net
Sat Sep 26 14:31:24 EDT 1998


good thread, sorry I missed it.
one point regarding external evidence. The almost universal testimony of
the manuscript evidence is that Hebrews is Pauline. While there were
still some theoretical concerns about Pauline authorship (stye,
vocabulary, lack of  internal claims to authorship) the earl church did
settle the issue at a pragmatic level everytime the NT was copied.
For most of my ministry I took the traditional  Only God knows who wrote
the book of Hebrews approach. Within the last 3-4 years however I have
conceeded that the manuscript evidence may be the least speculative
approach to resolving the issue. We still don't know with complete
certainty. . . but at least we are resolved from rolling the dice on
style issues. The problem therein is that we have to assume that it is
impossible for any author at any time to intentionally adopt a specific
style for reasons to which we don't have access.
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