Hebrews as Pseudepigraphon: The History and Significance of the Pauline Attribution of Hebrews

Cover
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
Abbreviations and References
Chapter 1: Introduction
	1.1 Introduction
	1.2 Historical Overview of the Pauline Attribution of Hebrews
	1.3 Isolating the Postscript
	1.4 Outline of the Present Investigation
	1.5 Summation
Chapter 2: Early Reception History of Hebrews: Rejected in the West?
	2.1 Introduction
		Chart I
	2.2 What Was Rejected and What Constitutes Rejection?
		2.2.1 Introduction
			2.2.1.1 Two Purported Major Witnesses to Hebrews’s Censurein the West
			2.2.1.2 Muratorian Fragment
			2.2.1.3 Gaius of Rome
			2.2.1.4 Minor Witnesses to Hebrews’s Purported Western Censure
			2.2.1.5 Major Witness to Hebrews’s Western Acceptance prior to Augustine and Jerome
			2.2.1.6 Summation
		2.2.2 Introduction
			2.2.2.1 Evidence of Hebrews’s Citation in the West prior to Augustine and Jerome
			2.2.2.2 Summation
	2.3 What is the Significance of Augustine’s and Jerome’s Testimonies concerning Hebrews?
		Summation
	2.4 Reception of Hebrews in the East
		2.4.1 Introduction
		2.4.2 Theodore of Mopsuestia
		2.4.3 Other Canon Lists
		2.4.4 Other Eastern Witnesses
		2.4.5 P
	2.5 Summation
		Epilogue: East versus West
Chapter 3: History of Scholarship: status quaestionis of the Pauline Attribution of Hebrews
	3.1 Introduction
	3.2 Heb 13:20–25: The Role of the post scriptum in the History of Hebrews’s Pauline Attribution
		Chart II
		3.2.1 Secondary Authorship
		3.2.2 Primary Authorship
	3.3 Summation
Chapter 4: Literary Dependence: The Imitation of Paul in Hebrews
	4.1 Introduction
	4.2 The Imitation of Paul in Hebrews 13:20–25
	4.3 The Imitation of Paul: Beyond the Postscript
		4.3.1 Introduction
		4.3.2 Hebrews 13:1–19 and Pauline Traditions
		4.3.3 Scriptural Allusions in Hebrews and Paul’s Letters
			Chart III
			4.3.3.1 Comparison of Exact Correspondences
			4.3.3.2 Comparison of Inexact Correspondences
			4.3.3.3 Summary
		4.3.4 Hebrews 1–12 and Pauline Traditions
		4.3.5 Conclusion
	4.4 Summation
Chapter 5: Hebrews as Pseudepigraphon
	5.1 Introduction
	5.2 History of Research
	5.3 Characteristics of the Classification “Pseudepigrapha”
		5.3.1 “What’s in a Name?”
		5.3.2 Intent to Deceive
		5.3.3 Criteria of Pauline Pseudepigrapha
	5.4 Pseudonymity: A “Rhetoric of Allusion”
		5.4.1 Introduction
		5.4.2 Active versus Reflexive Interpretation: A Hermeneutical Model
		5.4.3 Allusion as Revelation Production
		5.4.4 Summation
	5.5 Hebrews, Pseudonymity and the Formation of the Pauline Canon
		5.5.1 Introduction
		5.5.2 Early Christian Assumptions concerning Hebrews’s Pauline Authorship
		5.5.3 Assumption Hebrews Circulated Independently
		5.5.4 The Earliest Letter Collections of Paul
		5.5.5 Conclusion
	5.6 Hebrews and Acts
	5.7 Summation
Chapter 6: Prophecy and Authorship in Hebrews
	6.1 Introduction
	6.2 Prophecy in Hebrews: Form-Critical Method
		6.2.1 Prophecy in Early Christianity and the Ancient Mediterranean World
		6.2.2 Protocol
		Chart IV
	6.3 Analytical Interpretation
	6.4 Summation
Chapter 7: Reductio ad Absurdum
	7.1 Introduction
	7.2 Contradictions
		7.2.1 γενεαλογία
		7.2.2 άμαρτία
		7.2.3 θυσία
		7.2.4 άρχιερεύς
		7.2.5 πόλις
		7.2.6 ὕψηλός
		7.2.7 πιστός
		7.2.8 νόμος
	7.3 Summation
Chapter 8: Conclusion
Plates
Bibliography
Indices
	References
		1. Hebrew Bible
		2. Other Jewish Sources
		3. Greek and Latin Texts
		4. New Testament
		5. Early Christian Literature and the Ancient Church
	Modern Authors
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