On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 07:37:33 GMT, (Fr James Scully) wrote:
>>Which of the Apostles do you think wrote Hebrews?
>
>St Paul of course 
Question worded well and noted. )
I am not interested in playing silly word games. You implied that Hebrews was apostolic, and that prompted my question. The answer I would give to my question would be ‘probably none of them’, and I would cite Hebrews 2.3 as internal evidence that Hebrews was not written by someone who claims to have personally had teaching from the Lord.
You are in union with the King James Version and _some_ (but not _all_) of the ancient councils and fathers of the Church in that opinion, but stand against most modern scholars.
I do not know who wrote Hebrews, but I consider it unlikely that the author is the Apostle Paul.
There is a useful summary of the issues on this question at http://www.bible.org/docs/nt/books/heb/heb-intr.htm
- see especially section I.B.2.a for a summary of the reasons why many people consider Pauline authoriship unlikely.
If Paul _did_ write Hebrews, then the least that must be said is that the change in his writing style and theological outloook in this letter is very surprising when compared to the undisputed Pauline corpus.
cheers
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