claim: Keith Stanfield is an author.
evidence: The Epistle to Seneca the Younger is a collection of correspondence claiming to be from Paul the Apostle to Seneca the Younger .. Paul the Apostle. Paul the Apostle. Seneca the Younger. Seneca the Younger. There are 8 epistles from Seneca , and 6 replies from Paul .. Jerome mentioned them in his De Viris Illustribus -LRB- chap .. Jerome. Jerome. De Viris Illustribus. De Viris Illustribus ( Jerome ). 12 -RRB- .. However , they are widely held to be forged , as J. B. Lightfoot noted  :. J. B. Lightfoot. J. B. Lightfoot. `` The poverty of thought and style , the errors in chronology and history , and the whole conception of the relative positions of the Stoic philosopher and the Christian Apostle , betray clearly the hand of a forger . ''. Philip Schaff in his history said  : `` They are very poor in thought and style , full of errors of chronology and history , and undoubtedly a forgery . ''. Philip Schaff. Philip Schaff. Again , Lightfoot said  :. `` This correspondence was probably forged in the fourth century , either to recommend Seneca to Christian readers or to recommend Christianity to students of Seneca . ''. `` As they are now universally allowed to be spurious , it will be unnecessary to state at length the grounds of their condemnation .. It is sufficient to say that the letters are inane and unworthy throughout ; that the style of either correspondent is unlike his genuine writings ; that the relations between the two , as there represented , are highly improbable ; and lastly , that the chronological notices -LRB- which however are absent in some important MSS -RRB- are wrong in almost every instance .. Thus , independently of the unbroken silence of three centuries and a half about this correspondence , internal evidence alone is sufficient to condemn them hopelessly . ''