Letter 002 — The Sender: Who Wrote Hebrews? (Hebrews 11)

The letter has no signature. Two thousand years of careful readers, and we still don't know who held the pen. But we know exactly who held the paper, and what they were about to do.

In this letter

• The honest case for and against Pauline authorship — the Greek, the structure, and the Hebrews 2:3 problem
• The historic candidates (Apollos, Barnabas, Priscilla and Aquila, Luke), and why we may never know
• The original audience — Jewish believers in the late first century, tired and tempted to return to the synagogue
• The pastoral situation behind the chapter and why the writer gives his readers a family album

Scripture

• Hebrews 1:1-2
• Hebrews 2:3
• Galatians 1:11-12 (Paul's contrast) ...