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At least as early as 1798, when J. E. C.

Schmidt published his opinion, Paul's authorship of this epistle was questioned.

More recent challenges to this traditional belief came at the turn of the 20th century from scholars such as William Wrede in 1903 and Alfred Loisy in 1933 challenged the traditional view of the authorship.