This short Pauline epistle has long fascinated scholars, especially the so-called “Christ Hymn” (2:6–11) offering the possibility that Paul embedded here a piece of liturgy or tradition from earliest Christianity (or Paul proves himself a poet as well as a theologian). More recently, attention has turned to Paul’s shaping of Christian identity, his attitude toward his own Jewish identity and his pre-Christ past, and how he teaches the Philippians to navigate their life together in a potentially