will make some tentative suggestions concerning the date and place of the recipients of the epistle, we should see this epistle as addressed to a particular group within the community rather than to the community as a whole, and that is all we can say for sure about who they are. When Were Those Guys? Dating a NT book is a process of elimination, starting from the dates on both ends of a time line before and after which the book could not possibly have been written and moving toward the date on