purpose of exegesis is to articulate what the author expressed, since the text is the “voiceprint” of an author. Even when we do not know an author’s exact identity, as is the case in a book like Hebrews, we can still examine his text for his meaning. One other element in this first portion of the definition is worth noting. It is the fact that the location of the apostrophe in “authors” follows the “s,” so we speak of the authors’ meaning. Here we allude to the fact that the New Testament ultimately