Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

The way I heard it, Hebrews was a collaborative work between Paul and Luke: 
Paul supplied the ideas, Luke is excellent use of the Greek language. Sorry, 
I can't supply sources, other than to say that it supposedly got the 
information from tradition.

Did Paul think more as a Greek or Hebrew? Seeing as he was brought up in 
Jerusalem probably since his bar mitzvah, it could very well be that he was 
more Hebrew thinking than Greek. There's a hint even that Joseph who carried 
Jesus' cross may have been Paul's father.

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: "George F Somsel" <gfsomsel AT juno.com>
> 
> On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:27:52 -0500 Jim West <jwest AT highland.net> writes:
> > At 01:18 PM 12/22/2004, you wrote:
> >
> > >Paul, being a Roman citizen from Asia Minor, probably spoke Greek as his
> > >mother toungue, and probably thought in Greek as well. Chances are that 
> > >he
> > >"imported" Greek expressions into his Hebrew or Aramaic, not the other 
> > >way
> > >around. Certainly, when writing Greek, he thought like a Greek.
> > >
> > >Yigal
> >
> > Paul in 99% likelihood was not the author of Hebrews.  Whoever 
> > did write it, wrote excellent greek, excelled in the New 
> > Testament only by the author of 1 Peter.  Nonetheless you are 
> > correct in observing that when writing Greek one thinks in Greek 
> > and including a loan word or two from Hebrew or Aramaic doesn't 
> > change that fact any more than someone occasionally inserting 
> > "vis-a-vis" makes them a fluent thinker in French.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> >
> > ++++++++++++++++++++
> > Jim West, ThD
> > Adjunct Professor of Biblical Studies
> > Quartz Hill School of Theology
> ____________
> 
> Jim,
> 
> I beg your pardon, but the likelihood that Paul was the author of Hebrews
> is approx. 0.001%
> 
> george
> gfsomsel
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