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The 1611 edition of the King James Bible ends the Epistle to the Hebrews with "Written to the Hebrewes, from Italy, by Timothie" The Epistle to the Hebrews of the Christian Bible is one of the New Testament books whose canonicity was disputed. Traditionally, Paul the Apostle was thought to be the author. However, since the third century this ...
A minority view Hebrews as written in deliberate imitation of the style of Paul, [8] [9] with some contending that it was authored by Apollos or Priscilla and Aquila. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Scholars of Greek consider its writing to be more polished and eloquent than any other book of the New Testament, and "the very carefully composed and studied Greek ...
He includes ten epistles by Paul, omitting the Pastoral Epistles (Titus, 1 and 2 Timothy), as well as To the Hebrews. The Muratorian fragment (c. 140) accepts all Pauline epistles as authentic, but does not mention the Epistle to the Hebrews and rejects the Epistle to the Laodiceans and the Epistle to the Alexandrians as spurious.
The Epistle to the Hebrews, although it does not bear his name, was traditionally considered Pauline (although Rome questioned its authorship), but from the 16th century onwards opinion steadily moved against Pauline authorship and few scholars now ascribe it to Paul, mostly because it does not read like any of his other epistles in style and ...
The Epistle to the Hebrews had earlier been listed: [5] It is not indeed right to overlook the fact that some have rejected the Epistle to the Hebrews, saying that it is disputed [αντιλέγεσθαι] by the Church of Rome, on the ground that it was not written by Paul.
On the basis of their language, content, and other factors, the pastoral epistles are considered by skeptical scholars [9] as having been not written by Paul, but written after his death. [10] (The Second Epistle to Timothy, however, is sometimes thought to be more likely than the other two to have been written by Paul. [11])
However, Papias's description does not correspond well with the Gospel of Matthew: it was most probably written in Greek, not Aramaic or Hebrew; it depends on the Greek Gospel of Mark and on the hypothetical Q document; it is not a collection of sayings; [87] and it is unlikely to have been written by an eyewitness. [88]
Pauline authorship of the Epistle to the Hebrews is not asserted in the Epistle itself and was already doubted in the 2nd and 3rd centuries. [note 2] It was almost unquestioningly accepted from the 5th to the 16th centuries that Paul was the author of Hebrews, [21] but that view is now almost universally rejected by scholars.