Chris Little wrote: >>I see that the default for Sword is that "Paul's Epistles" >>includes Hebrews. Does anybody seriously believe that Hebrews >>is by Paul? >> > >We also call the books of the Pentateuch 1-5 Moses respectively in many >of our localized book names. Does anybody seriously believe that the >Pentateuch was written by Moses and is not an amalgam of four major >sources? > That sounds like a whole more complex argument. Whereas it seems to me Hebrews tells explicitely it was NOT Paul. (2:3), indicates that the author had neither been with Jesus during his earthly ministry nor received special revelation directly from the risen Lord, as had Paul (Gal 1:11-12).
>My point is that scholarship challenges many traditional notions of >Biblical authorship. At one point, Pauline authorship of Hebrews was >the prevailing view. > And prior to it becoming a prevailing view, it was not the prevailing view. >Modern Bibles don't typically group Hebrews with the >catholic epistles either, so we might as well group it with the Pauline. > I don't see that you must group it just for the sake of grouping it.
