The authorship of Hebrews has long been debated and various candidates are proposed, though scholars have come to no consensus. Judging from the text, the original readers appear to have known the author (13:18–19), but their knowledge has not been preserved and the letter itself does not tell us who he is. The Eastern Church, from antiquity, attributed the epistle to St. Paul (and, it should be noted, it was probably the Eastern Church—in Judea—which was the intended audience).