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The Book of “Hebrews” The book of Hebrews is similar to no other books in the New Testament. Hebrews is loaded with support, urgings and stern warnings. Hebrews is generally referred to as a letter; however it doesn't have the commonplace type of a letter. It finishes like a letter yet starts more like a sermon. It expresses that the book starts without a welcome and excludes the naming of the writer and locations. The statement in 13:22, “I have written you only a short letter,” recommends a letter written in the style of a sermon (Abraham 1994). After researching I have also found that Dr. William Lane has even says "Hebrews, is a sermon in actual life." It is, at the same time, a sermon reduced to writing" (Lane 1991). The writer of …show more content…

Researching I have found that the author was a master of the Greek language, and the verse of Hebrews 2:3 “how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;” (Abraham 1994) designates that the author had neither been with Jesus during his earthly ministry nor had received special revelation directly from the risen Lord, as had Paul; who was one that most commonly verbally expressed that the book of Hebrews was written by Paul and it was additionally called “The Epistle of Paul to the Hebrews” (Abraham 1994). There are many scholars that believe that the book of Hebrew was not witan by Paul. In spite of the fact that the message of Hebrews is somewhat similar to that of Paul’s doctrine in that the Law has supposedly been done away with because the book of …show more content…

Which I believe that it was written before the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple in or preceding A.D. 70, because the author consistently uses the Greek present tense when speaking of the temple and the priestly activities connected with it in 7:8; 9:6-7, 9, 13. The author might not have made these remarks if the temple had been destroyed. In our text book “The New Testament” I quote that “any date between A.D. 60 and 95 is possible. Most of the evidence however, points to a time of writing prior to A.D. 70” (Black

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