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Horizons in Biblical Theology 33 (2011) 191-206 brill.nl/hbthb ll l/hb h © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2011 DOI: 10.1163/187122011X593181 Book Reviews Hebrews as Pseudepigraphon: The History and Significance of the Pauline Attribution of Hebrews . By Clare K. Rothschild. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testa- ment I 235. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009. xvii. Pp. 287. € 89. In her book Hebrews as Pseudepigraphon , Clare Rothschild challenges the prevailing assump- tions about the origin and purpose of Hebrews and, in a comprehensive and wide-ranging investigation, argues that Hebrews was, from its very inception, a Pauline pseudepigraphon that was written as an addition and even correction to the Pauline corpus. In order to make this argument, Rothschild challenges assumptions about the history of Hebrews’ reception in the church, the nature of the early manuscript evidence, the purpose of the postscript (Heb 13:18-25), the state of academic research into Christian pseudepigrapha, the relation- ship of Hebrews to the Pauline corpus and to Acts, the nature of oral traditions, the character of Christian prophecy, and the purpose of Hebrews’ infamous theological contra- dictions. Rothschild’s argument is both formidable and delicate. The force of the argument comes from the cumulative weight of a
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