Daily Archives: September 11, 2017

The Authorship of Hebrews: Ancient External Evidence

Originally posted on The Jesus Memoirs:
The Authorship of Hebrews: Ancient External Evidence Irenaeus of Lyon and Hippolytus of Rome: “…  and a volume containing various Dissertations, in which he mentions the Epistle to the Hebrews and the so-called Wisdom…

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Church Write-Up: Grace, God and Non-Believers, Divine Guidance, Gnosticism

I visited two churches last Sunday.  One was an African-American Baptist church.  The other was the evangelical church that I call the “Pen Church,” since I get a free pen there when I attend.  The sermons at both churches overlapped … Continue reading

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Paul’s Radical Gentile Mission

Reblogging for future reference. Reading Acts One of the basic assumptions most Christian have about Jews in the first century is that they kept separate from the Gentiles. Josephus said that Jews “did not come into contact with other people … Continue reading

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