Timeline for Is 2 Thessalonians 3:17 enough to reject Paul as the author of Hebrews?
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| Dec 5, 2017 at 17:21 | comment | added | elika kohen |
@ruminator - "Thin Ice that Paul had to keep a low profile." Actually, this is plausible / probable if Paul was writing to the "Hebrews" who were rejecting "Judaism/Pharasaism" - and wanted the book to be taken on "the merits", and not dismissed out of hand - because of his name. Pauline features are actually all over the place - except in the places where you wouldn't see them - if he had intended the letter to be copied/distributed - unlike his other targeted epistles. All of these arguments around authorship are frustrating - since they are unknowable.
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| Dec 5, 2017 at 17:09 | history | edited | Ruminator | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 5, 2017 at 17:08 | comment | added | Ruminator | @user33515 No, I'll remove that as it is unnecessary. | |
| Dec 5, 2017 at 16:27 | history | edited | Ruminator | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 5, 2017 at 16:25 | comment | added | user33515 | "The letter was classified as Pauline by the Catholics which allowed them to include it in the canon despite any explicit connection." - Can you identify the source you are getting this from? | |
| Dec 4, 2017 at 2:03 | comment | added | Ruminator | @user20490 I had read in a commentary that the Samaritans referred to the Jews as Hebrews (and that Stephen's speech and To the Hebrews had other Samaritan features) but I have not been successful in locating the information though I have hunted. I thought it was in this: abebooks.com/servlet/…-srp1--title4 | |
| Dec 4, 2017 at 1:58 | comment | added | Emmanuel Dan | @Ruminator Your point about the phrase "To the hebrews" is worth considering. | |
| Dec 4, 2017 at 1:57 | comment | added | Ruminator | @user20490 It is an allusion to the compelling and secure "words of the wise": "The words of the wise are like goads, their collected sayings like firmly embedded nails--given by one shepherd." - NIV Ecclesiastes 12:1 | |
| Dec 4, 2017 at 1:53 | comment | added | Emmanuel Dan | @Ruminator 😁😁😁. Very funny. At least my hat is not my head. | |
| Dec 4, 2017 at 1:50 | comment | added | Ruminator | @user20490 Thanks. I updated the answer with my ruminations on who might be the author but probably nothing you could hang your hat on. | |
| Dec 4, 2017 at 1:49 | history | edited | Ruminator | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 4, 2017 at 1:39 | comment | added | Emmanuel Dan | Ruminator thanks for this answer. But you didn't answer my second question. "Whoever wrote it". My second question requires an informed speculation about who the "whoever" was. +1 all the same. | |
| Dec 4, 2017 at 1:22 | comment | added | Lucian | The problem with textual criticism is that it establishes style, rather than authorship: which, of course, is not to say that there is no connection whatsoever between the two concepts. For instance, in Romanian literature, the same man who is known for fathering brutal, down-to-earth historical novels, handling the harsh, every-day realities of warfare, revolts, and peasant life, also wrote Adam and Eve, a romantic fantasy novel dealing with, among other things, reincarnation.. | |
| Dec 4, 2017 at 1:06 | comment | added | Lucian | The letter was classified as Pauline by the Catholics - As opposed to all other of Saint Paul's purported epistles, whose canonicity was determined by... someone else ? | |
| Dec 3, 2017 at 22:22 | history | answered | Ruminator | CC BY-SA 3.0 |