My reply,Who are the Carthoginians.
The writer of Hebrews is not known.
The authorship of Hebrews is debated among NT scholars. Most agree it is Paul based upon the style of writing, but admit there is no hard proof.
While I personally believe Paul dictated Hebrews, it is so well contested that you can’t accord it as given for Jeopardy.
I won’t watch Jeopardy until that sicko man, Amy Schneider, gets the hell off of there. You think he’d have some shame for prancing around in women’s clothes. Absolutely disgusting/
A Carthoginian, a Corinthian, and a Hebrew walk into a bar . . .
Hebrews has the most OT verses quoted in it, but the controversy is not over the number of verses, but whether or not Paul wrote Hebrews.
Most Biblical scholars believe that he did not.
Interesting.
Did Paul write just one letter to a group outside of the Corinthians?
“The price is wrong Bob” happy.
Maybe they should have stuck to questions like the one about Brian Laundrie being eaten by alligators.
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.
Questions like that could keep a couple of guys wrestling the whole night through, until it finally dawns on Somebody to cry 'Uncle' [דוד].
I saw that. Paul is not necessarily the author of Hebrews. The author is never identified. The style is different from all of his other letters, and Paul always identified himself when writing. and even indicated when he was dictating or writing it himself (see what big round letters I use when writing in my own hand...etc)
I knew that the correct answer was “What is the Book of Hebrews” because it uses more OT refernces than any other of the epistles, but I alo knew that the clue was worded incorrectly. It probably wasn’t Paul. It could have been Priscilla for all we know.
Nevertheless, I would have answered what they wanted to hear, just to have the satisfaction of winning. And, of course, the cash.
No one knows who wrote Hebrews and anyone who takes any dogmatic position about who wrote it is WRONG. Scripture itself says to “not go beyond what is written.”
Majoring in the minors only weakens our position as Christians.
We have enough trouble agreeing on what IS WRITTEN.
Our sole focus should be on “Jesus Christ and Him crucified” which we first must faithfully represent with our lives and actions and only then with our words. Our words are mostly vaporware today because our testimony before the world negates what we say before we even say it.
Nonsense arguing about who wrote Hebrews is just such an example. We need to repent.
When the world sees holy, righteous, godly lives and lives laid down for Christ and one another - then it will listen. Read our Lord’s prayer just before the cross in John 17 and use that as a yardstick on how we are doing.
May the Lord help us.
Buttrey offered, “Who are the Romans,” a response deemed incorrect, prompting outrage from home viewers who felt that that was the best answer.
Give it a rest heathens.
He was writing to the Corinthians...
Good news: the host is Ken Jennings. I avoided Jeopardy for months when the screeching lady took the podium. Bible answers are easy with biblehub dot com.
Origen’s third-century statement on Hebrews has endured: “Who wrote the epistle, in truth, God knows.”