Historical-Cultural Context for the Historic-Literary Hermeneutic

• 2. What is the specific historical-cultural context and purpose of this book?

• 1. Who was the writer? What was his spiritual background and experience?
• 2.To whom was he writing (e.g. believers, unbelievers, apostates, believers in danger of becoming apostates, those he knew well, strangers, and individual, a group?)
• 3. Does the writer explicitly or implicitly state his purpose (intentions) in writing thie particular book?
• Ranges from speculation, educated hypothesis, deductive evidence, unsupported by hard evidence, … Virkler says “To The Hebrews” is via deductive evidence, I say it is via the title given by the authorizing Apostles and preservation of Scripture which he denies.