Who wrote the book of Hebrews?

[The Liturgist]

People have speculated that Luke or Apollos might be the father. I think Apollos is more likely. Or Paul had many scribes that actually wrote his letters for him. Perhaps it could be one of them.

Based on the Patristic origin of Lukan authorship, and the Patristic association of St. Luke with St. Paul, and also the automated analysis @Hammster cited, I am really leaning towards Luke. Of course, we don’t have any known writings of Apollos to compare it with, so we are in that sense limited.

 

[Guojing]

Yes we can.
The verses "the disciple whom Jesus loved" appear in John's Gospel - i.e the Gospel according to John.
My point was that it was "called the Gospel according to John" for a reason; that, traditionally, he was the author. You even said, "well personally I think Lazarus was the real author of the Gospel of John".

It doesn't make sense to say "we'll discount anything in the Gospel of John because we can't agree on the author - any personally testimony in the Gospel is not valid because John might not have been John.
You might as well say - just to get the thread back on track - that we don't know who wrote Hebrews so we had better not read it.

So in the end what you are actually saying is

I believed John wrote the gospel of John because traditionally, he was the author.

And I never said anything to the meaning of "we'll discount anything in the Gospel of John because we can't agree on the author - any personally testimony in the Gospel is not valid because John might not have been John."

Please don't add words into my mouth.