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Hebrews
It is quite disturbing that the title neither corresponds to the text of any passages or any opening word. There is no need to understand that the text had been written to the Palestinian Jewish community. If it is so then why it would be written in the local Greek language?
There is no author, no beginning format of the letter, no date, no place, and no address available in the text of the Hebrews. In 13.2, “And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words”, is a little funny, that how could a man after writing 13 chapters could say that he wrote very little. These lines in 13.22 to 13.25 are interpolations to give the shape of an almost letter.
The Hebrus is not a letter rather it is a long sermon, and it is actually a written sermon, written for the training of the Jewish-turned-Christian evangelists (by an unknown ฮดฮนฮดฮฌฯฮบฮฑฮปฮฟฯ). The tune of the writer is as such that he is a Pentecostal American Pastor, who has a personal relationship with Jesus. The time of the Hebrew Text could be around 380-90 CE and several times this sermon was modified according to need and delivered to trainees for reading and then settled in or around 450 CE.
The theme of the text was that the Romanisation of the church took havoc on the congregation (Jewish) and they were leaving the Church. Therefore reassure them by using Jewish scriptural images in Church life. In this Global Scholastic Commentary, we put little chance for presumption. We do not presume that Hebrew was penned by Paul or by his companion or anybody else. Each NT text has its own independent origin. No church ever possesses all the text at any given time before 400 CE. No text has any connection with other text. All independent texts were collected by individual church officials in their library and later they brought them together in a single volume. This text was added to the NT last.
Elaborate priestly clan bishopric tribes were the cause for Hebrews to add the concept of the priesthood of Christ and the complete abolition of Law. By this, the institution of the priest was consolidated within the church, is the ultimate purpose of Hebrews.
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