Who wrote the book of Hebrews? (page 2)

slimboyfat

Pricilla, apparently, according to a quick glance at Wikipedia

Fisherman

Those aren’t reasons, they are speculation.

They are not speculations.They are reasons.

Just before Paul was baptized and commissioned for his work, the Lord Jesus said to Ananias: “This man [Paul] is a chosen vessel to me to bear my name to the nations as well as to kings and the sons of Israel.” (Acts 9:15; Gal. 2:8, 9) The writing of the book of Hebrews was truly in line with Paul’s commission to bear the name of Jesus to the sons of Israel.

It stands to reason that God would use Paul to write Hebrews. —Obviously if the Bible is a sham, it doesn’t matter. But given the authenticity of the Bible that all scripture is inspired, it is very reasonable to conclude that Paul is the writer.

Fisherman

Thank you again TD for your posts. You always give something of value like the Greek comparison between Rev and Hebrews.

smiddy3

I think some guy named He-brews who was a beer maker by trade wrote it.

Thank you FedUpJW,

I think you have pegged it

Jeffro

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Anony Mous

As with everything in the Bible, it is very unlikely the author claimed is the author actually, more likely it was a group of people that over time wrote and rewrote the story to fit their viewpoints.

Paul was already dead by the time we find evidence of the first books. The authenticity and authorship has been disputed since it started being described in Church literature.

TD

One of the things that makes writing styles distinctive is that the average person only uses about 1/4 to 1/3 of the words available in their language and this vocabulary varies from person to person to person.

So when one book of the Bible contains approximately 150 words that aren't found in any other book, it is definitely a distinctive writing style.

One can no doubt find ways to explain this discrepancy, but I would agree that dismissing what little evidence we have is not evidence in and of itself.

TonusOH

A more fascinating question might be: who was Paul? There seems to be little reference to him outside of the Bible, if any. If we do not use the Biblical sources, what do we know about him? Anything?

peacefulpete

Heb 2:3

So what makes us think we can escape if we ignore this great salvation that was first announced by the Lord Jesus himself and then delivered to us (hypo) those who heard him speak?

Here the author argues that his take on soteriology was passed to his contemporary Christians 'by' (hypó (a preposition) – properly, under, often meaning "under authority") those who heard (the Lord) speak. This may be simply rhetorical, saying the tradition had been passed to them from first generation of Christians. Clearly this is not Paul. He adamantly denied getting his take on Christianity from others but rather directly from Christ. It makes much more sense to identify the author with a later period.

peacefulpete

TonusOH...who is Paul?

An enjoyable but impenetrable mystery. It has been suggested that Simon Magnus and Paul (Saul) are divergent traditions about a single man. The names are actually cognates and there are many parallels. Half of early Christians hailed the miracle working Simon as origin of their Christianity, these are also connected to the group that preserved the Pauline epistles. Marcion learned from a Simonian named Cerdo that the epistles by then in circulation had been Judaized, heavily redacted and interpolated. Marcion himself may not have even known of Hebrews as he neither includes or rejects it in his canon. It's all very provocative but too much is lost to be sure of anything.

Language in Hebrews is found verbatim in 1 Clement suggesting the same author reusing his arguments. Problem is we don't know which came first. And the language they share is being utilized differently, in fact opposingly. 1 Clement is impossible to date as internal evidence is contradictory. The work had many recognized additions and interpolations. We don't even know who Clement was and traditions about him are contradictory and come through a procession of hearsay. A Clement is mentioned in the Shepard of Hermas as someone of importance but the work is very different from 1 Clement.

In the end my best guess is that , no one knows.

Who wrote the book of Hebrews?

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