<Li> Ephesians contains no mention of charismatic gifts . </Li> <Li> Ephesians shows Jesus acting on his own account and by his own authority without making explicit that he is acting on God's behalf and with God's blessing; in Paul's other letters, this is more explicit . </Li> <P> The epistle was included in the Marcion canon and the Muratorian fragment; it was mentioned by name by Irenaeus, and quoted by Ignatius, Justin, and Polycarp . In recent times, criticism of Pauline authorship was raised by H.J. Holtzmann and G. Hollmann (see above). Much of the dispute concerns the linguistic similarity between 1 Thessalonians and 2 Thessalonians . For example, 1 Thess 2: 9 is almost identical to 2 Thess 3: 8 . This has been explained in the following ways: Paul wrote 2 Thessalonians soon after writing 1 Thessalonians or with the aid of a copy of 1 Thessalonians, or Paul wrote 1 Thessalonians himself but a later writer imitated him, or the linguistic similarities are seen as subtle enough to make imitation an unnecessary hypothesis . </P> <P> Udo Schnelle argued that 2 Thessalonians was significantly different in style from the undisputed epistles, characterizing it as whole and narrow, rather than as a lively and abrupt discussion on a range of issues . Moreover, Alfred Loisy argued that it reflected knowledge of the synoptic gospels, which, according to the current scholarly consensus, had not been written when Paul wrote his epistles . Bart D. Ehrman viewed the insistence of genuineness within the letter and the strong condemnation of forgery at its start as ploys commonly used by forgers . However G. Milligan observed that a church which possessed an authentic letter of Paul would be unlikely to accept a fake addressed to them . However, Milligan's analysis assumes that 2 Thessalonians is not a late forgery and thus was received by the Thessalonian community . </P>

The authorship of the book of daniel is virtually undisputed in scholarly study