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  • From: "Edgar M. Krentz" <ekrentz AT earthlink.net>
  • To: dhindley AT compuserve.com, Corpus-Paul <corpus-paul AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: RE: [Corpus-Paul] Why was Hebrews ever thought to be by Paul?
  • Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 09:41:56 -0500

Steve Black ASKS:

Dave, why do you think that Hebrews would only make sense if one had some
"familiarity with the other Paulines"? I haven't thought this in the past -
am I missing something?<<

On a related - but also unrelated note - Usually Hebrews is dated
late-ish - but I have wondered at the lack of mention of the destruction of
the temple in it. As I follow the argument as presented by its author - it
seems like it would have been a powerful means to further his/hers aims in
the letter. More so than any where else in the NT - as I see it. His flow of
"logic" "calls out" for an explicit mention of the temple - and because this
is not to be found - it makes me wonder if the temple had not yet been
destroyed when it was written - making it earlier than usually thought.<<

Isn't it significant that the auctor ad Hebraeos does not refer at all to the temple, but to the tabernacle as instituted in the exodus? Which means, perhaps, that the date of the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem is irrelevant to the dating.

Note also that the Mishnah discusses at length the proper modes of sacrifice in the temple more than 125 years after the temple was destroyed--even though the discussion is not immediately relevant to its own time.

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