Clare K. Rothschild argues that Hebrews was not composed de novo. Rather, it deliberately adopts words and phrases-including citations from the Jewish scriptures-from a collection of Pauline materials in order to imply Paul's authorship of the work overall. Furthermore, the longstanding tradition of Hebrews's Pauline attribution suggests that it never circulated independently of other works attributed to Paul but, rather, that it was composed to amplify an early corpus Paulinum. This is the first ever monograph to examine Hebrews as a pseudepigraphon, specifying the history and significance of its Pauline attribution for our understanding of the book and its author's indebtedness to Pauline traditions.weiterlesen