Hebrews Paper Snippets

Here are some more Hebrews paper snippets as I try to blaze a trail in preparation for Scotland.
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"Hebrews arguably presents us with at least seven distinct ways in which God speaks in the biblical text: 1) pre-modernly, as the character of God speaks in the biblical text, 2) by way of straightforward exempla, stories of the Scriptures that serve as examples to emulate or avoid, 3) in straightforward, ‘timeless’ truth, 4) as prophetic script (e.g., to be placed on the lips of Christ or the contemporary audience), 5) in shadowy illustration, which is closely related but distinct from 6) parabolically/allegorically, and, finally, 7) directly to the audience through God’s Holy Spirit. Several of these categories are not those of the author of Hebrews himself, and several embody fine distinctions from our contemporary hermeneutical perspective. Nevertheless, they provide a helpful rubric for us to describe and discuss Hebrews’ own use of Scripture within its own paradigm."
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"Within such a pre-modern paradigm, narrative framing plays out in a reader or audience’s mind much as the scene direction of a screenplay. The narrative context is not read as text, but is experienced as action in the drama. It is for this reason that pre-modern interpreters confuse the main speaker of a biblical narrative with the author of that narrative. Moses the main speaker of the Pentateuch becomes Moses the author of the Pentateuch.

"Accordingly, narrative about God speaking is experienced as God speaking. For this reason, the author of Hebrews attributes the Septuagint of Deuteronomy 32:43 to God when in fact this text is obviously about God, not God himself speaking (Heb. 1:7). Similarly, we might add the author’s citation of Deuteronomy 32:35 in Hebrews 10:30b to the list of quotations the author attributes to God. This verse was about God, but the author likely thought of it as a word of God."