Inscribe by William Barclay as the "Queen of the Thistles", the Epistle to the Ephesians is one of the books of the Bible in the New Testament.Paul of Tarsus is traditionally said to have written the letter while he was in prison in Rome (around 62 A.D.). This would be about the same time as the Epistle to the Colossians (which in many points it resembles) and the Epistle to Philemon. However, critical scholars have questioned the authorship of the letter, and suggest a much later date for its origin.