Pauline Authorship of Hebrews
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sun Sep 27 18:36:01 EDT 1998
At 1:31 PM -0500 9/26/98, GeorgiabobBeckman wrote:
>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.
This post is problematic in at least two respects. For one thing it lacks a
signature; while most of us perhaps do see the "From" header in our e-mail
reader, there are some whose mail program indicates only the immediate
sender, which is B-Greek. Our list Netiquette is clear about the
expectation that posters will clearly identify themselves. The other
problem is that there appears to be no basis at all in the NT Greek text
for the proposition being argued here--and although it is proposed that
"the almost universal testimony of the MS evidence is that Hebrews is
Pauline," I do wonder exactly what MS evidence is being referred to here as
"almost universal testimony." What evidence from significant Greek
manuscripts is there for Pauline authorship?
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics/Washington University
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