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Philippians: A Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

Paul’s letter to the Philippians offers treasures to the reader—and historical and theological puzzles as well. Paul A. Holloway treats the letter as a literary unity and a letter of consolation, according to Greek and Roman understandings of that genre, written probably in Rome and thus the latest of Paul’s letters to come down to us. Adapting the methodology of what he calls a new history of...

of the church’s leadership (“overseers and assistants”), who have presumably arranged for the gift he has now received by way of Epaphroditus. ■ 1a As in all his authentic letters, Paul identifies himself as Παῦλος (“Paul”),9 the Greek form of the Roman cognomen Paul(l)us.10 Acts alleges that Paul was also known as Σαῦλος (“Saul”), sometimes spelled Σαούλ,11 from the Hebrew שאול.12 This is certainly possible given Paul’s Benjaminite roots.13 But it is also consistent with Luke’s agenda: the
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