2 Thessalonians

Pros Thessalonikeis B

Anonymous or Paul (authorship is disputed; a significant number of critical scholars regard it as deutero-Pauline) · if pseudonymous, c. AD 80-100; if authentic, c. AD 50-51 alongside 1 Thessalonians · place of composition disputed (Greece) · letters

2 Thessalonians insists the day of the Lord has not yet arrived and lays out signs, a great rebellion and a "man of lawlessness," that must precede it, an eschatological timetable some scholars read as correcting 1 Thessalonians' more imminent expectation and others as simply Paul clarifying himself. Its own place of composition is disputed, distinct from Thessalonica, Macedonia, its destination.