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- From: "Liz Fried" <lizfried AT umich.edu>
- To: "Corpus-paul" <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: RE: C-P: Who wrote Hebrews?
- Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 08:31:08 -0400
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeffrey B. Gibson
> [mailto:jgibson000 AT mpdr0.chicago.il.ameritech.net]
> Sent: Saturday, June 05, 1999 10:23 AM
> To: Corpus-paul
> Subject: Re: C-P: Who wrote Hebrews?
> Far more interesting, I think, that the question of who wrote
> Hebrews is the question
> of WHY whoever wrote it did so.
>
> I would want to argue that an answer to THIS question must take
> serious consideration
> of Alexander Nairne's older, and far-too-often neglected
> hypothesis that Hebrews was
> written to Christians in or near Palestine in response to the
> out-break of the Jewish
> war and the "temptation" it held for Christians to join in the
> nationalistic crusade.
> This, it seems to me, is a fruitful context of interpretation,
> far more so than
> Alexandria. What was going on in Alexandria that would move
> Christians not only to
> abandon their faith but to do so in a way that its tantamount to
> "recrucifying the son
> of god" as
> the author notes his readers are in danger of doing?
No one has responded to this, so I suspect no one has any ideas to put
forward. Perhaps it would be fruitful to discuss the "when" before we
discuss the "why." The hypothesis you propose assumes a background of the
war against Rome. What in the book leads to that conclusion?
Best,
Liz
>
> Yours,
>
> Jeffrey Gibson
> --
> Jeffrey B. Gibson
> 7423 N. Sheridan Road #2A
> Chicago, Illinois 60626
> e-mail jgibson000 AT ameritech.net
>
Lisbeth S. Fried
Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies
New York University
51 Washington Sq. S.
New York, NY 10012
lqf9256 AT is3.nyu.edu
lizfried AT umich.edu
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Re: C-P: Who wrote Hebrews?
, (continued)
- Re: C-P: Who wrote Hebrews?, Frank W. Hughes, 06/03/1999
- Re: C-P: Who wrote Hebrews?, Jack Kilmon, 06/03/1999
- RE: C-P: Who wrote Hebrews?, Rodger Cragun"Real Name" here., 06/03/1999
- Re: C-P: Who wrote Hebrews?, Jon Peter, 06/03/1999
- Re: C-P: Who wrote Hebrews?, Mike Myers, 06/03/1999
- RE: C-P: Who wrote Hebrews?, Liz Fried, 06/03/1999
- Re: C-P: Who wrote Hebrews?, Frank W. Hughes, 06/03/1999
- Re: C-P: Who wrote Hebrews?, Jack Kilmon, 06/04/1999
- Re: C-P: Who wrote Hebrews?, Jack Kilmon, 06/05/1999
- Re: C-P: Who wrote Hebrews?, Jeffrey B. Gibson, 06/05/1999
- RE: C-P: Who wrote Hebrews?, Liz Fried, 06/07/1999
- Re: C-P: Who wrote Hebrews?, Jeffrey B. Gibson, 06/07/1999
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