original_query: Who is considered the author of The Shepherd of Hermas?
query: Who is considered the author of The Shepherd of Hermas?
answer: The authorship is debated.  Some attribute it to Hermas, a brother of Pope Pius I, based on evidence from the Muratorian fragment, the Liberian Catalogue of Popes, and Pseudo-Tertullian. However, Origen of Alexandria suggested that it was the Hermas Paul greeted in Romans 16:14.  There is no conclusive consensus.