David Alan Black has written some notes about the authorship of Hebrews that will tie in to his book in the Topical Line Drives Series, titled unsurprisingly The Authorship of Hebrews.
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8:06 AM From The Authorship of Hebrews: The Case for Paul: Today, I’m intrigued to note how often exegetical arguments are based upon subjective internal evidence. Arguably, this is not the best way to approach exegetical conundrums when there is an abundance of external evidence to be considered. I would prefer that our students be…
9:16 AM Say, got a minute for some reflection? Today I want to think out loud with you about “hypotheses.” As a proponent of the Pauline authorship of Hebrews, all I can do is offer a hypothesis that I believe is consistent with the facts. This does not, of course, prove my hypothesis. That is…
[12/26/2016] 1:05 PM Man … I still can’t believe I just read this today. A commentator repeats an age-old argument against the Pauline authorship of Hebrews by noting how Paul quotes the Old Testament: “Scripture says” or “It is written.” Then he goes on to state, “The letter [of Hebrews] never uses these expressions but…
Thursday, June 28 , 2018 7:35 AM Here’s a connection I hadn’t seen before. It’s between Heb. 1:3 and Heb. 6:1. Note the words highlighted in green. Πολυμερῶς καὶ πολυτρόπως πάλαι ὁ θεὸς λαλήσας τοῖς πατράσιν ἐν τοῖς προφήταις ἐπ’ ἐσχάτου τῶν ἡμερῶν τούτων ἐλάλησεν ἡμῖν ἐν υἱῷ, ὃν ἔθηκεν κληρονόμον πάντων, δι’ οὗ καὶ ἐποίησεν τοὺς…
From Dave Black Online, May 18, 2015: 9:02 AM Quote of the day: Hebrews is the most non-anonymous of all the anonymous New Testament writings. Who said it? (Hint: His initials are DAB.) Dave Black is the author of TLD volume The Authorship of Hebrews: The Case for Paul.
(June 28, 2018) 5:55 AM This interview on the authorship of Hebrews just came out and I thought you might be interested in it. The interviewer is none other than Abidan Shah, one of our doctoral students in textual criticism at SEBTS. (From Dave Black Online. Used by Permission.) Learn More
