ABSTRACT
Tyndale followed tradition in ascribing Hebrews to Paul, but his 1534 prologue opens, ‘About this pistle hath ever been much doubting… who should be the author thereof ’, since both style and content are not like Paul’s. AV continues to ascribe it to Paul, but today few if any scholars accept this, and the author remains unknown. Hebrews is mentioned by Clement of Alexandria, who died c.ad 95–96. This gives a final date, before which there are two estimates. One prefers a date c.ad 65, on the basis of references to the Temple, which was not destroyed until 70. The other distrusts this evidence, and argues, from allusions to persecution, for a date late in Domitian’s reign, c.90–96. We cannot know for sure.
