Prequel

Thought maybe it would be appropriate to backtrack and give my theory on the "epistle" to the Hebrews.
I was reading J.B. Phillips some years ago and, as he usually did, he rearranged my status quo thinking about biblical events.
  Just before Stephen makes his mark as the first martyr to the faith, there is one verse in Acts 6:7 that points out that a large number of the Jerusalem priests followed Jesus.  (The obvious reason, as my dad pointed out, was "because they knew good and well that the Holy of Holies was empty..."  I would add a corollary to that: the High Priest knew it had been empty for 400+ years.)  So what are you going to do with a company of priests that are no longer on the payroll of the Temple coffers?  Put the book of Hebrews in their hands and send them out to all the synagogues in Judea and Samaria.  If all goes well, they will follow Jesus and Stephen (and establish a precedent for Paul) by being beaten or run out of town.  The synagogue will split and a new church will be born.  Hard to imagine such a "church planting" method in our way of doing things.