Luke, Barnabas, Silas, Clement of Rome, Apollos, Philip, and Priscilla. There are reasons for (and against, in some instances) each of these possibilities (see the sidebar “Proposed Authors for Hebrews Other Than Paul”). What we can say for sure about the author must be drawn from the book itself: he or she (Priscilla remains a candidate)3 was exceptionally well acquainted with the Old Testament, employed an obviously christocentric hermeneutic in interpreting the Old Testament, probably was familiar