with a holy kiss (1 Thess. 1:1; 5:26; 2 Thess. 1:1–2), the reference to the wish prayer (1 Thess. 1:2–3; 2 Thess. 1:3–4), the charge to have the letter read aloud to all the brothers (1 Thess. 5:27), and the reference to the autograph with closing greeting (2 Thess. 3:17), there is little evidence of the use of regular epistolary conventions in these documents. Equally important, when epistolary forms are used, as in the wish prayer (or even more in the invocation or benedictions) they are modified