The following is a PowerPoint presentation regarding the way Hebrews quotes the Old Testament, one of the elements in arguments regarding authorship. Some mobile devices may not be able to view the slide show, so I am embedding a PDF as well. This is an embedded Microsoft Office presentation, powered by Office.
(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
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, Monday, March 5, 2018. Used by permission.) 5:18 PM So here’s another blog post that is guaranteed to bore you to death or at least put you to sleep. (So what’s new, eh?) This afternoon I was sitting in my home library reading Ephesians 4 when I “just happened” (= divine providence…
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…
[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…
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. Until January 29, TLD books will be $4.99, but due to an increase in printer costs, they will go up $1.00 to $5.99 on…
5:42 PM Since I have just published another book (The Authorship of Hebrews), I thought I would share with you few thoughts on the writing and reading of books: 1) The books I write are getting shorter and shorter. “Less is more” is becoming more of a reality and less of an old truism for…
… is at POLUMEROS KAI POLUTROPOS.
He provides a summary of the options and there’s good discussion in the comments (HT: Polumeros kai polutropos).
