Priscilla is an admirable suggestion but completely unlikely given the masculine participle in 11:32.Īlthough somewhat speculative, most votes would also go to Hebrews being a sermon sent to Roman Christians. If I have to choose, Apollos would be my speculative vote. Even if somewhat superficial, the numerous parallels between Hebrews and the Alexandrian Jew Philo make a certain cumulative case for someone who had swum in Alexandrian waters at some time. Tertullian writing from the west around AD200 suggested Barnabas.Īpollos has received significant support in the last century, although his name was not really suggested until Martin Luther. Origen, writing about AD200, famously suggested that the thoughts were Paul's, but who the actual writer was "God knows." It is still the best answer. Voices from the eastern part of the church eventually settled on Paul as the author or at least the source of Hebrews' theology. The early church was divided on who the author was. The mention of Timothy in 13:23 may suggest he was part of the Pauline mission in some way. He would seem to be highly educated and rhetorically trained. As just mentioned, he is a "second generation believer" in the sense that he is not an original apostle but someone who came to believe in Jesus from the message of the apostles (2:3). The author is almost certainly male, for he identifies himself as such grammatically in 11:32. Perhaps most strikingly, in Hebrews 2:3 the author does not consider himself an eyewitness of Christ, something Paul vigorously affirms in his writings (e.g., 1 Cor. Not only is the style of Hebrews different than any of Paul's letters but the way Hebrews approaches questions like the Jewish Law is different from how Paul does.
This is a strong consensus that has persisted for well over a hundred years. Almost no expert on Hebrews today thinks that is likely.
Tradition, of course, had Paul as its author. We assume it is the Timothy we know from Paul and Acts, but we do not have enough information to be sure. What exactly is its genre? The only contemporary person mentioned in the whole of the book is a Timothy (13:23). It does not explicitly say why it is being written or when. It does not say where it is being written from or where it is being written to.
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I might also add that I went through the entirety of Hebrews in both a podcast and video form as part of my Through the Bible in Ten Years series.įrom an inductive standpoint, the book of Hebrews is full of puzzles. Thought I would knock that out in a bout of insomnia. I realized that I have not written an introduction to Hebrews for my Explanatory Notes.
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