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Hi, I'm Scott Hahn and I want to welcome you to the Road to a Mayus, a podcast from the

St Paul Center where we tackle different themes and issues that arise in our study of scripture. Today once again I am joined by my good friend

Rob Corzine. Welcome Rob. Good to be here. So I'd like to talk about something today that I see as especially pertinent.

Not only because it represents chapter 12 of my brand new book, Holy Is His Name, but because it represents something I've been working on for the last five years, if not more.

And that is the book of Hebrews in general, and in particular, the subject of the Holy Eucharist.

Yeah and I think everybody would agree that Hebrews is one of the hardest books in the

New Testament and and pose hardest books in the new testament and poses you know real difficulties and for that reason

commentators are all over the map. Truly, that's the case.

Okay, so when it comes to the question of authorship,

the question of audience, the question of dating,

it's a free for all. It's all up for grabs. Now I do have my opinions and I think they're right,

but I'm not going to cloud the issue by introducing those at this point because what I'd like to do is to propose an

application of what the St Paul Center is all about and that is reading

scripture from the heart of the church, which isn't the same thing as reading it as conservative Catholics or reading it as Catholic apologists who are trying to proof text and that sort of thing.

Instead what I'd like to do is what I began doing way back in the 90s when I reached

the climax of my doctoral thesis and the final chapter had to do with the book of Hebrews.

The entire 700 page project was focusing on the question of how do you relate the old and the new

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