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In this new introduction and guide to Paul’s Letter to the Philippians, Nijay K. Gupta makes the background, messages, and theological importance of this text understandable and interesting to lay readers and students. Reading Philippians includes Gupta’s own English translation of Philippians. In his discussion of the value and significance of this text for Christians today, he incorporates...

assume the presence of Lydia and the unnamed jailer. From Paul’s letter itself we can add the names Epaphroditus,9 Euodia, Syntyche, and probably Clement. In terms of social and economic class, most of the believers would have been what we think of as “working class,” and some of them were probably slaves. Perhaps a few were men or women of elite status. In terms of leadership structure, it is peculiar that Paul mentions “overseers” and “deacons” in the prescript of his letter (1:1). The first term
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