Hebrews was the majority choice of our poll for which book of the Bible to study next. We will probably begin our study of this book within the next couple of weeks. Last meeting we focused on Chapter 23 of Joshua and had a great free-form discussion on how Joshua relates to the Gospel of Jesus. Next meeting we should start on Chapter 24 (the last chapter) of Joshua. Please join us to wrap up our study of this wonderful Old Testament book of history. A call out to Mike - we were very happy to have you join our study this week and hope you can attend regularly in the future.
Peace & Grace
As for the authorship of Hebrews, we can see the heavy influence of Paul in many of the passages, but by in large, the style of the book is not in his ususal style. This might be explained in by the fact that Hebrews is not a letter to a particular congregation, but more of a sermon. One would write a letter in a very different manner than one would write a sermon, so the difference in syntax may not discount Paul.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, the sentence structure is more like the writting style of Luke. Luke and Paul were close, so it would be equally acceptable to beleive that Luke wrote Hebrews under the supervision of Paul.