Claudius ' extant letters, speeches, and sayings were incorporated into the text ( mostly in the second book, Claudius the God ) in order to add authenticity.

The main arguments in favor of the authenticity of Galatians include its style and themes, which are common to the core letters of the Pauline corpus.

) 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.

Several writings and many letters have been ascribed to Apollonius, but some of them are lost ; others have only been preserved in parts or fragments of disputed authenticity.

) Cujus etiam ad Paulum apostolum leguntur epistolae: These letters, allegedly between Seneca and St. Paul, were revered by early authorities, but most scholars now doubt their authenticity.

In the 19th and early 20th centuries there was a great debate in the United States about the authenticity of the letters he wrote to Francis I describing the geography, flora, fauna and native population of the east coast of North America.

We have nine letters in his name, but the authenticity of four has been questioned.

The private letters from father to son remain within the royal household, but were copied and released into the public domain without any approval or foreknowledge, according to a Zarzuela palace official who confirmed the letter's authenticity.

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.

This raises a question of the letters ' authenticity.

* This source still maintained the authenticity of the letters.

This information comes from those letters of Paul whose authenticity is not disputed.

The authenticity of these letters is accepted by almost all scholars, and they have been referenced and interpreted by early authors such as Origen and Eusebius.

Faurisson generated much controversy with a number of articles, published in the Journal of Historical Review and elsewhere, as well as various letters he has sent to French newspapers ( especially Le Monde ), which deny various aspects of the Holocaust, including the existence of homicidal gas chambers in Nazi concentration camps, the reality of the systematic killing of European Jews using gas during World War II, the authenticity of The Diary of Anne Frank, and the veracity of Elie Wiesel's accounts of his wartime suffering.

" While Greene admits he couldn't validate the authenticity of the accounts in the letters he received, he did believe spitting occurred, stating ," There were simply too many letters, going into too fine a detail, to deny the fact.

One scholar who has attempted to defend the letters ' authenticity is A. Soudovar, in his article " In defense of Rasid-od-din and his Letters ".

From the start, the passionate letters, in book form, were a European publishing sensation ( in part because of their presumed authenticity ), with five editions in the collection's first year, followed by more than forty editions throughout the 17th century.

In these circumstances it is not surprising that some doubt should have been cast upon the authenticity of the letters.

Webster's Dictionary ( 1828 ) defines diplomatics as the " science of diplomas, or of ancient writings, literary and public documents, letters, decrees, charters, codicils, etc., which has for its object to decipher old writings, to ascertain their authenticity, their date, signatures, etc.

Chasles defended the letters ' authenticity but was eventually forced to reveal that Lucas had sold them to him.

His defence of the authenticity of the letters of Ignatius has been confirmed by J.

* c. 110: Ignatius of Antioch uses the term Catholic Church in a letter to the Church at Smyrna, one of the letters of undisputed authenticity attributed to him.

: Realistically, the only scenario capable of explaining the acceptance of the Pastorals is the authenticity of one of the three letters.

A third single was released amid controversy before Christmas 1984: a revival of " It Ain't Necessarily So ", the George and Ira Gershwin classic ( from Porgy and Bess ) which questions the authenticity of Biblical tales.

Eleven witnesses signed testimonies of its authenticity, which are now included in the preface to the Book of Mormon.

* Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale closes with a chapter set at a conference taking place some time after the events of the rest of the book, in which scholars question the authenticity of the earlier manuscript.

Only fragments of the latter's work survive ( and the authenticity of these is debatable ) yet they allow us glimpses into the kind of tradition within which Herodotus wrote his own Histories, as for example in the introduction to Hecataeus's work, Genealogies:

Louis Feldman has stated that in the period from 1937 to 1980 at least 87 articles had appeared on the topic, the overwhelming majority of which questioned the total or partial authenticity of the Testimonium.

A final argument from silence relates to Josephus ' own writings and questions the authenticity of Testimonium based on the fact that it has no parallel in the Jewish War, which includes a discussion of Pontius Pilate at about the same level of detail.

Van Voorst also states that the use of a neutral term " called Christ " which neither denies nor affirms Jesus as the Messiah points to authenticity, and indicates that Josephus used it to distinguish Jesus from the many other people called Jesus at the time, in the same way that James is distinguished, given that it was also a common name.

Some arguments in favor of partial authenticity rely on the language used in the Testimonim, e. g. that the passage calls Jesus " a wise man " which is not laudatory enough for an interpolator, neither is the reference to " amazing deeds ".

Blomberg adds that after the removal of these three elements ( which are likely interpolations ) from the Greek versions the remaining passage fits well with the Arabic version and supports the authenticity of the reference to the execution of Jesus by Pilate.

Biblical scholar F. F. Bruce has said " the evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writings of classical authors, the authenticity of which no one dreams of questioning ... It is a curious fact that historians have often been much readier to trust the New Testament records than have many theologians.

His conversations with Boris Nicolaevsky, a Menshevik leader who held the manuscripts on behalf of SPD, formed the basis of " Letter of an Old Bolshevik ", which was very influential in contemporary understanding of the period ( especially the Ryutin Affair and Kirov murder ) although there are doubts about its authenticity.

Collier's later career as a literary forger has cast some doubt on the authenticity of the script, which is rather literary in style and may well have been tidied up from the rough-and-tumble street-theatre original.

The use of these algorithms also allows the authenticity of a message to be checked by creating a digital signature of the message using the private key, which can then be verified by using the public key.

With their establishment of paleography, Mabillon and his fellow Benedictines were responding to the Jesuit Daniel Papebroch who doubted the authenticity of some of the documents which the Benedictines offered as credentials for the authorisation of their monasteries.

In the punk and hardcore subcultures, members of the scene are often evaluated in terms of the authenticity of their commitment to the values or philosophies of the scene, which may range from political beliefs to lifestyle practices.

" He notes that the " terms in which they expressed their disdain for hangers-on and those whose post-hip credentials didn ’ t quite make it came straight out of the authenticity movements: " Poseurs " was the favourite epithet.

Unlike many earlier serials which were set in fictional towns, Ryan's Hope was set in real location, New York City, and outside shoots were used to give the series greater authenticity.

After the Protestant Reformation, many Protestant Bibles began to follow the Jewish canon and exclude the additional texts, which came to be called " Apocrypha " ( i. e. of questionable authenticity ).

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 .".

Any member of the society may apply to register a name and device for their persona, which are checked by the heralds for uniqueness and period authenticity, before being blazoned and recorded in the society's Armorial.

The Principles was followed in 1790 by his first essay in the field of Christian apologetics, Horae Paulinae, or the Truth of the Scripture History of St Paul which compared the Paul's epistles with the Acts of the Apostles, making use of " undesigned coincidences " to argue that these documents mutually supported each other's authenticity.

Featured on Chabad. org is the multi-part article, The Zohar's Mysterious Origins by Moshe Miller, which views the Zohar as the product of multiple generations of scholarship but defends the overall authenticity of the text and refutes many of the textual criticisms from Scholem and Tishby.

The need for Dasein to assume these possibilities, that is, the need to be responsible for one's own existence, is the basis of Heidegger's notions of authenticity and resoluteness — that is, of those specific possibilities for Dasein which depend on escaping the " vulgar " temporality of calculation and of public life.

The following works are of doubtful authenticity: De spectaculis (" On Public Games "); De bono pudicitiae (" The Virtue of Modesty "); De idolorum vanitate (" On the Vanity of Images ," written by Novatian ); De laude martyrii (" In Praise of Martyrs "); Adversus aleatores ; De duobus montibus Sina et Sion ( On the Two Mountains Sinai and Zion ); Adversus Judaeos ; and the Cena Cypriani (" Cyprian's Banquet ", which enjoyed wide circulation in the Middle Ages ).