| A great puzzle about the Book of Hebrews is the | | | | disciple of Christ (Heb. 2:3). The writer was very |
| authorship, because the writer does not give his | | | | well versed in the Old Testament, which he |
| own name, or does he refer to any | | | | quoted from the Septuagint version. Also, he may |
| circumstances or connections that would say who | | | | have been a Jew, because he often used the first |
| he was with absolute assurance. A study of the | | | | person plural in addressing his Jewish audience. He |
| Book of Hebrews shows that the writer was a | | | | was a friend of Timothy and most likely was a |
| man of high literary ability, with a style that | | | | part of the Pauline circle (13:23). His use of the |
| approached more closely to that of classical | | | | Scripture from Habakkuk 2:4, "The just shall live |
| Greek than that of any other writer of the New | | | | by his faith" (10:38), agrees with Paul's usage in |
| Testament. This writer was not an immediate | | | | Romans 1:17; Galatians 3:11. |