Not really. While there are a number of people who believe that scripture is “written” by God whispering in the ears of the people who wrote the books, that is hardly a prevalent view, even among people who hold more nearly literalist positions regarding scripture.
Note that the *purpose]/i] of the letters are different than the purpose of the gospels. Paul clearly never met Jesus when he was preaching, so he is not going to rely on quotations that he recalls. The idea that everyone in the Christian community would have some single lock-step memories of Jesus is silly. Take a look at the posts on these boards when people recall their own experiences with the Vietnam War or the Reagan Years or the WTC/Pentagon attack. Even people who share the same basic outlooks toward those events are going to emphasize certain memories over other memories. Finding six or ten authors who each portray (or emphasize) different events is what one should expect when reviewing the writings of the New Testament.
Such discrepancies clearly do not argue in favor of Jesus being God or the Messiah or anything else, but they hardly argue against such beliefs unless one holds the “God guiding the hand of the authors” viewpoint–a viewpoint that is actually pretty rare.
Not sure if Tnd addressed this, but here’s the 2c summary:
Hebrews has been attributed to Paul but it is beyond highly unlikely that Paul wrote it. You don’t need some grand biblical scholar to figure that out. Go read any defnitively Pauline epistle and then read Hebrews. Two totally different writing styles.
(In my humble opinion, the guy who wrote Hebrews can barely cobble together a coherent thought.)
Why would Paul have quoted from a book about Jesus anyway? He personally met several of the original 12 Disciples – if he wanted to know what Jesus said about X or did on occasion Y, he could simply have asked them.
Homebrew and Tommndebb have related the dates of these books as near as I can tell as to when current biblical scholarship has placed them.
Paul’s letters were well before Gospels in their final form.
You can still buy old King James Bibles which preface HEBREWS with “Paul’s Epistle to the Hebrews” but no modern Bible scholars believe now that Paul wrote Hebrews - no one knows who wrote Hebrews.
In John 10, Jesus seems to think of the 81st(RCV) or 82d Psalm(KJV) as his thinking of being God, or the son of God. He uses the psalmist who states," I said you are gods, and sons of the most high)"that could mean just Jewish men were gods or all people. If one looks back into history the word God didn’t mean as we do today, it seems more like a person of power, and good standing. In early history it seems one could claim the title god, for themselves.
I never heard either that Luke (or “the author of Luke-Acts”) wrote Hebrews - but everyone else has been posited as an author of it, so why not?
This brings me to a point in the OP:
“Paul (author of over half of the NT)”
If you are talking NUMBER OF DIFFERENT BOOKS; maybe that is so, but sheer VOLUME OF TEXT
might have to go to the author of Luke-Acts.
IOW, all of Paul’s letters combined do not come near half the NT in sheer volume of texts. he just has more individual books than anyone else.
Guesses on author of Hebrews have included Apollos, Silas, and Priscilla of Corinth - if THAT was true it would be only female author in NT.
Luke, or “the author of Luke-Acts” - is generally believed to be a Gentile Greek physician - a weird candidate for author of Hebrews, but nobody knows.
John 10 34-Is it not written in your law, I said you are gods, if he called them gods unto whom the word of God came, ;and scripture cannot be broken; Say ye of him, whom the father has sanctified, and sent into the world, thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the son of god? If he were sent it would mean though he and the Father were one, could well mean that he considered all men the sons of God and gods, to me it is like the Ocean is made of water or H2O, the whole being greater than the part.
On the authorship of Hebrews, from the preface to that book in The New Oxford Annotated Bible (2001) When the New Testament was being formed, this anonymous sermon was attributed to Paul, presumably because of the growing authority of Paul’s name and reputation as a letter writer. The early church leaders Origen, Clement, and Tertullian, however, recognized the differences in style and theology between Hebrews and Paul’s letters. Clement argued that Luke translated Paul’s Hebrew original into Greek and Origen suggested that a disciple of Paul’s wrote the letter based on Paul’s notes. Modern interpreters have suggested other authors, including Apollos and Priscilla. There is not sufficient historical evidence, however, to prove that any person named in the New Testament was the author of Hebrews. The Historical Jesus by Theissen and Merz implies that the book is dated from the 2nd century in Egypt.