Kyle Leeper Book Analysis: Philippians The traditional author ship of this book is Paul.

The reason why he is the traditional because at the start of the book of Philippians he states his name at the beginning of the word and back in those days the author of a letter always states his name at the beginning so the people of the church or a reader can know who wrote the letter. Another reason why he is the traditional author of this book is because it follows the usual pattern of Pauls letters. I this book it was talking about the other churches that Paul visited in the past. This was during the time that Paul was in prison and again it the book he wrote that he was imprison at the time he wrote the letter. According to Carolyn Osiek thinks that Philippians is composed of as many as three letters that Paul wrote to Philippi. But you could say that Timothy is the non-traditional authorship because again his name is at the beginning of the letter too with Paul. I believe that Paul is the author of this book because it states again that he is in prison at the time he is writing this letter to them. First in the book he said that I hope in the lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I may be cheered by new of you. Second he talks about his imprisonment in the first chapter of Philippians in verse thirteen where he states So that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard and to everyone else that my imprisonment is for Christ. Third this is the second time that Timothy name was mention by Paul in his introduction, for that reason I believe that Timothy was at Philippi where the church he was sending it too and Timothy was only mention so that we can know who else he was writing the letter to not just the people of Philippi. I believe that Paul is 99 percent the author of the book Philippians like I mention it fits his writing and he mention that he is writing from a

prison. Again he says that I have no one like him who will be genuinely concerned for your welfare. According to Abba II in 356 B.C., King Philip of Macedonia (the father of Alexander the Great) took this town and expanded it, renaming it Philippi. The Romans captured it in 168 B.C.; and in 42 B.C., the defeat of the forces of Brutus and Cassius by those of Anthony and Octavian (later Augustus) took place outside the city. Octavian turned Philippi into a Roman colony (cf. Acts 16:12) and a military outpost. The citizens of this colony were regarded as citizens of Rome and given a number of special privileges. Because Philippi was a military city and not a commercial center, there were not enough Jews for a synagogue when Paul came (Acts 16:13). According to Gordon D. Fee when Paul came to the city around 49 CE, Philippi was an urban center at the eastern end of the plain, a few miles northwest from Neapolis. The people there were both Romans and Greeks and spoke predominantly Greek even though Latin was the official language. The church in Philippi was founded by the apostle Paul on his second missionary journey, recorded in Acts 16:1-40. Paul originally went to Macedonia because of a night vision described for us in Acts 16:9. In it Paul saw a man of Macedonia standing and asking that he come over to help them. Paul responded and so the gospel went triumphantly westward beginning in Philippi as the first city to be evangelized in Europe. According to Markus Barth, this book was written after he wrote to the church of Ephesians early 70s. According to Harris, Stephen the Epistle of Paul to the Philippians, usually referred to simply as Philippians, is the eleventh book in the New Testament was written in c 62. And the book of Colossians according to Mack, Burton, if the letter is not considered to be an authentic part of the Pauline corpus it might be dated during the late 1st century, possibly as late as the 80s.

First I believe that he wrote it in the same year he wrote Ephesians, because according to the Wikipedia Markus Barth, Ephesians: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary on Chapters 1 3 (New York: Doubleday and Company Inc., 1974) he mention that this was the first time he was imprisonment which is true because in the bible he mention that he was in prison. Second Abba II Silas, Timothy, Luke, and Paul first came to Philippi in A.D. 51, eleven years before Paul wrote this letter. Third his ship was wrecked in a storm off the island of Malta. Paul finally arrived in Rome around A.D. 59 to 60. There he was held under house arrest and guard for the next two years. His Roman imprisonment, or captivity, has been dated as A.D. 59-61, and even as A.D. 61-63. So I conclude that it falls few months after he wrote Ephesians, but in the same year. So in conclusion I believe that the main author of this book of Philippians is Paul because he was stating that he is in prison while he was writing to them and he stated that he hopes that Jesus will send Timothy to them. And I also believe it was written in the year of A.D. 62 eleven years after his first visit. BIBLIOGRAPHY Abba II. "THE BOOK OF PHILIPPIANS A Brief History, Overview, and Outline of Philippians. Believersweb.org." Believersweb. Abba II, 6 May 2003. Web. 27 Oct. 2011. <http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=814>. Barth, Markus. "Epistle to the Ephesians." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. New York: Doubleday and Company Inc., 1974. Web. 27 Oct. 2011. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistle_to_the_Ephesians>.

Coogan, Michael David. The New Oxford Annotated Bible: New Revised Standard Version with the Apocrypha. New York: Oxford UP, 2010. Print. Fee, Gordon D. "Introduction, Background, and Outline to Philippians | Bible.org - Worlds Largest Bible Study Site." Free NET Bible and Thousands of Bible Studies | Bible.org - Worlds Largest Bible Study Site. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995. Web. 27 Oct. 2011. <http://bible.org/seriespage/introduction-background-and-outline-philippians>. Harris, Stephen L. "Epistle to the Philippians." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 27 Oct. 2011. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistle_to_the_Philippians>