assigned to them were likely penned and edited by other people. For example, while Jonah is the traditional author of Jonah, there's a good case to be made that some later scribe wrote this satire of the compassionate God, the rebellious prophet, and the repentant cows. The church has been (roughly) consistent with assigning authors (or at least names of authors) to books in the New Testament. Even works that are technically anonymous, like the Gospels, were so important that the early church leaders consistently assigned their authorship to either the same traditional person or a small group of candidates. But the book of Hebrews is a glaring exception. Authorship of this book has been debated for centuries. Augustine was sure Paul wrote it. Luther was convinced it was the eloquent Apollos. Tertulian assigns the work to Barnabas. But we just don't know.