Personal Hebrews Bible Study

Argument to Pauline Authorship:

It is what the early church believed for over 1500 years. Why buck it when there were people who had a close hand relationship with Paul, and the tradition held that it is his writings.

The argument against Paul many times involves Clement of Rome, by the date it was written does not line up with that, and it is very unlikely that Clement would have written it without signing it, and it is hard to imagine there would not have been some sort of evidence in Rome that he wrote it.

Even Pantaenus, who was the head of the Alexandrian school of catechetes, place Paul as the writer. He stated that Paul wrote this in Hebrew, and did not sign his name because he was generally known as the Apostle to the Gentiles. While Peter was known as the Apostle to the Hebrews. Paul was hated by many Jews, so having his name on it would not bear fruit. It would be like Adam Hamilton writing theology to those of us who are conservative in the Wesleyan tradition.

Also the oldest test of Hebrews is found in Papyrus 46 which holds it chronologically right after Romans, which then strongly points to Paul as the author.

The only real “ church father” who placed authorship with someone else was Origen and he got more wrong then he did right.