Posted on 11/17/2022 4:37:20 PM PST by nickcarraway
The popular quiz show “Jeopardy!” has courted controversy twice this week — this time sparking a debate of Biblical proportions.
In the final round of Wednesday’s “Tournament of Champions” episode, contestants Amy Schneider, Andrew He and Sam Buttrey had to solve the following clue: “Paul’s letter to them is the New Testament epistle with the most Old Testament quotations.”
Schneider answered, “Who are the Hebrews,” which host Ken Jennings said was correct. Buttrey offered, “Who are the Romans,” a response deemed incorrect, prompting outrage from home viewers who felt that that was the best answer.
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Same here. Stomach-turning.
Maybe they should have stuck to questions like the one about Brian Laundrie being eaten by alligators.
It would have been interesting what would have happened to car design, if government had not gotten involved. Perhaps people would have moved toward more conservative since cars last so long.
I like your tempering answer that it doesn’t really matter, except for the Jeopardy folks, since it is accepted as Scripture which is inspired by the Holy Spirit.
I used to vote for Pauline authorship until I found out that the Pauline epistles were ordered by size by those ancient Church people who put the New Testament together. Hebrews doesn’t fit the seeming decreasing size order. Therefore, my current guess, if someone asks, is Apollos. He seemed to have had the level of education of Paul and probably would have been capable.
Priscilla.
bttt
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.
A.K.A.:
Carthago delenda est.
One of the prominent theories is that it is a sermon by Paul that was transcribed by the human author of the greatest percentage of the New Testament. :) Asking the latter would have been a better question, err... answer.
Modern scholarship, 2000 years removed, lands on the side that it was not written by Paul. The criteria they use to reach this conclusion is through modern critical scholarship-- the same methods used to cast doubt on the authenticity of other of Paul's writings.
Personally, I favor Pauline authorship because I place more credence in the early tradition than modern scholarship. Also because it makes modernists mad. ;)
The dispute over the authorship of Hebrew is rubbish. The book was ALWAYS attributed to Paul, even though that attribution doesn’t appear in the text (and therefore makes a problematic Jeopardy question). The primary reason for the dispute is that it’s written in a much more formal tone of Greek than the other letters.
But here’s the thing: Since it was written to the Hebrews, it was probably written IN HEBREW and then translated into Greek by either another hand or at a much later time. A translator wouldn’t’ve chosen informal language.
For instance, if I’m writing in English, If I wrote “Ca va?” in French, it would never be translated as “whassup?” When I write in French, however, I might translate “whassup?” to “ca va?” because it means “what’s up?” and is used as a familiar greeting. So what I write in English ends up much less formal then what you’d get if I wrote in French, and this was translated into English.
Essentially, the supposed evidence that the Letter to Hebrews is not from Paul is bad evidence, and no reason to suppose that 2,000 years of consistent attribution is wrong. (Yes, Eusebius wondered about the differences in Greek style was back 1,600 years ago, but had no better reason to suspect Hebrews wasn’t Paul’s than we do now.)
My pastor believes that Paul is the author, however.
A playful greeting in French might be something like “coucou.”
Questions like that could keep a couple of guys wrestling the whole night through, until it finally dawns on Somebody to cry 'Uncle' [דוד].
Except if you understand Koine Greek it is very different from the other Pauline epistles. Very different. I put that to a different amanuensis.
I should have included that the sages understood that this -- דוד -- was "the final verdict".
Better late than never..
An excellent point/argument.
I had never considered this.
Two guys walk into a bar.
The third one ducks.
Like the traditional ordering of the Suras in the Quoran.
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