We are unlikely ever to be able to give certain and specific answers to such questions as: Who wrote Hebrews? Where? And to whom? Hebrews itself does not give this information, and there is no textual evidence that it ever did. External evidence of authorship is unreliable and divided, and external evidence of the circumstances in which the letter was written is largely lacking. The study of such introductory questions is nevertheless of interest from
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