The authenticity, or authorship of the letter remain uncertain.

James Soong himself had never disputed the authenticity of the letter.

Another scholar who argues for the authenticity of this letter is Jerome Murphy-O ' Connor.

) Once the text of this interpolated letter is removed and the two letters compared, Murphy-O ' Connor asserts that this objection is " drastically weakened ", and concludes, " The arguments against the authenticity of 2 Thessalonians are so weak that it is preferable to accept the traditional ascription of the letter to Paul.

Those who believe Paul was the author of Second Thessalonians also note how Paul drew attention to the authenticity of the letter by signing it himself: " I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand, which is how I write in every letter .".

MacDonald's attempts to cast doubt as to the authenticity of the letter were in vain, hampered by the document's widespread acceptance among government officials.

Whenever she received a letter soliciting money, a cheque would be sent by the next post, regardless of the authenticity of the mendicant and without having the case investigated.

However the authenticity of this letter, which was first produced in 1935, has been questioned.

Key evidence for this includes a letter dictated by Agaja to George I of Great Britain in 1726, whose authenticity is disputed.

According to a letter of disputed authenticity dated to 906, the Epistola Adefonsi Hispaniae regis, Alfonso arranged to purchase an " imperial crown " from the cathedral of Tours.

Orthodox historian, Bishop Arseny ( Bryantsev ), challenged the authenticity of the correspondence and, incidentally, points to the 50 letters of Cyril of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich and Moscow Patriarch Filaret, stored in a Moscow archive of the main Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the evidence of Cyril's commitment to Orthodoxy, as well as in his 1622 letter in which he speaks of Protestantism as a blasphemous doctrine.

The letter was accepted as genuine by Oswald's widow and left the House Select Committee on Assassinations ( 1978 ) unable to verify or discredit its authenticity.

Controversy over the Fragments ’ authenticity has focused on the letter ’ s style and content.

The authenticity of the letter used to be disputed as a supposed modern forgery but modern historians now agree that it is certainly a product of the 14th century: In 1991, the parchment was radiocarbon dated to between 1252 and 1312 ( with a certainty of 85 %).

He showed that the supposed letter of Christ to Abgarus was a forgery, and by throwing doubt upon the authenticity of other spurious documents, and by questioning the utility of monastic life, he aroused the anger of some of the faithful.

The letter was also offered to other interested parties, including prominent critics of the Mormonism Jerrald and Sandra Tanner, who also expressed doubts as to its authenticity.

) Christian theologian Joseph Barber Lightfoot argued for the authenticity of the letter since it doesn't state it was written in Egypt ( 132 ) and that an alternative date for the adoption of Aelius was on or before 134.

However, while an increasing number of scholars have been convinced of this view, many still maintain that the Mar Saba letter itself is genuine, and debate continues about the authenticity of the letter and the Secret Gospel it describes.

Peters denied the authenticity of the letter but had to admit the executions.

* Vignaud, H. ( 1902 ) Toscanelli and Columbus: The letter and chart of Toscanelli on the route to the Indies by way of the west, sent in 1474 to the Portuguese, Ferman Martins, and later on to Christopher Columbus ; a critical study on the authenticity and value of these documents and the sources of the cosmographical ideas of Columbus, followed by the various texts of the letter.

Debates over the authenticity of the authorship of Dionysian corpus, however, began in the Renaissance.

Doubts as to the present stone's authenticity have however existed for a long time now.

The Legend of Christian, written in Latin verse in the latter half of the 10th century, describing the lives of Saints Ludmila and Wenceslas is the greatest surviving work ; its authenticity however is under some dispute.

The authenticity of all the poetic fragments attributed to Solon is however uncertain-in particular, pederastic aphorisms ascribed by some ancient sources to Solon have been ascribed by other sources to Theognis instead.

The Codex, however, was studied by approximately twenty experts in various specialties, including the Physics Institute of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and anthropologist, linguist, and scholar of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, Charles E. Dibble of the University of Utah, as well by experts in graphology from the Bank of Mexico ; the findings all indicate authenticity of the document and 16th century origin.

The authenticity of this speech is questioned, however, since the Register of Debates and the Congressional Globe do not contain transcripts of speeches made on the House floor.

More recent scholars however have doubted their authenticity.

The authenticity of this document, however, has been questioned.

Interviews with Erlandson have confirmed the authenticity of this session, and the style is thought to have been a transition between the alternative style of Live Through This and the band's later pop-influenced sound, however no material from the sessions has surfaced.

We must, however, handle these with some caution, since some of the poems ( Idylls ) commonly attributed to him have little claim to authenticity.

The Bamboo Annals found in 281 AD in the tomb of the King of Wei, who was interred in 296 BCE, provide another example ; however, unlike the Zuo Zhuan, the authenticity of the early date of the Bamboo Annals is in doubt.

This work is the earliest surviving detailed contemporary report of an English state-trial ; some have doubted its authenticity, however, claiming St-Calais would not have been as knowledgeable in canon law as the work portrays him.

His work, however, betrays local traditions, especially the genre traditions of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, in honestly depicting Flemish life with authenticity and showing common people in the act of celebratory expressions of life.

Many legal instruments were written under seal by affixing a wax or paper seal to the document in evidence of its legal execution and authenticity ( which often removes the need for consideration in contract law ); however, today many jurisdictions have done away with the requirement of documents being under seal in order to give them legal effect.

The authenticity of these early speeches, however, is disputed.

Some Christian fundamentalists and preachers, however, defended its authenticity.

Despite initially defending the authenticity of the documents, Rather and CBS eventually admitted that they were misled about how they were obtained ; Rather, however, has continued to insist that the documents weren't conclusively proved to be forged.

In San Juan " underground ", however, it was not just about authenticity or ideology, but was literally about position in the market.

Whether he is writing full novels, novelettes, or short-stories, however, Inoue's penchant for detailed, exhaustive research and historical accuracy give his stories a flavor of authenticity.

Almost immediately, however, widespread doubts were raised about their authenticity.

Minobu "); however, the authenticity of this document is disputed by other branches of Nichiren.

The unblemished musculature of the central figure waving to the rescue ship is reminiscent of the Neoclassical, however the naturalism of light and shadow, the authenticity of the desperation shown by the survivors and the emotional character of the composition differentiate it from Neoclassical austerity.

None of the arguments presented by Myriam Cyr, however, differs significantly from the 19th century debate on the authenticity of the work, and the bulk of the critical evidence continues to favor the thesis of Guilleragues's authorship.

The former is generally thought to be original ; however, the " 燃 " character that is ( often ) used in the former generates confusion over its authenticity.