The Pauline History of Hebrews

The Letter to the Hebrews is a confounding book in the New Testament. For one, it is not really a letter. Nor is the author of this indistinctly-titled letter named or identified. In fact, many of the rudimentary questions surrounding its intended audience, date, and provenance seem impermeable.

Rather than see anonymity as an unresolved problem, as a lack in the text that needs to be resolved, Warren Campbell embraces anonymity as a vantage point from which to observe the Pauline history of the Hebrews in a new way -- that is, how Hebrews was made to be Pauline.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction: The Letter to the Hebrews and the Study of Paul


• 2: The Invention of Paul's Letter to the Hebrews


• 3: Clement of Alexandria's (Dis)engagement with Hebrews


• 4: Origen's Letter on the Nature of Jewish Reading


• 5: Prefacing Hebrews and the Institutionalization of Paulinity


• Epilogue

About the author

Warren Campbell is BKT Assistant Professor of Religion at Wabash College. He has published work in several journals, including New Testament Studies, Harvard Theological Review, and Vigiliae Christianae.

Product details

• Authors: Warren Campbell
• Publisher: Oxford Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 20.06.2025
• EAN: 9780197769256
• ISBN: 978-0-19-776925-6
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 140 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 499 g
• Series: Cultures of Reading in the Ancient Mediterranean
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; History of Religion, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Biblical Studies & Exegesis, Old Testaments