Talk:To the Hebrews

Raymond Brown commentary

Nathan, I'm in the market for a good New Testament commentary--how strongly would you recommend Raymond Brown's book? Are there others you'd recommend? Anyone else have any recommendations? Thanks in advance. --RobertC 04:59, 25 Feb 2006 (UTC)

Robert, I am not such a great person for this. I like Raymond Brown, although his work is less of a commentary than a text book on New Testament studies. For a straight commentary, I went with the New Jerome Biblical Commentary. My understanding is that the first edition of this commentary was essentially the first English-language post-Vatican II Catholic commentary. It contains a nihil obstat from the Catholic Church. In other words, it is scholarlly and sophisticated, but also religiously sensitive in a Catholic sort of way. I really like it. --Nathan Oman 17:51, 27 Feb 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the recommendation—and for the new Latin phrase (nihil obstat = official approval, literally "nothing hinders"). --RobertC 03:24, 28 Feb 2006 (UTC)

Authorship

Do we have any idea who wrote this? I've heard several different names, but no evidence for any of them. At the end of the letter in my quad, it says "Written to the Hebrews from Italy by Timothy", but it doesn't say that on the church website. --Mjberkey 03:37, 30 July 2007 (CEST)