Introduction to Galatians

First read about the letter to the Galatians here.

Read about the land where the Galatians lived here. Pay attention to what the article says about Galatia as a Roman province.

Notice that there are no originals of this letter and the oldest copies are from around 200 B.C.E. The date of writing is thought to be in the general range of 47 to 60 B.C., after Paul's first or second missionary journey as described in Acts, depending on which theories you ascribe to. This is before the fall of Jerusalem. Not many people dispute that the letter is actually from Paul as described in the letter.

There is a possibility that this is the earliest of Paul's letters in existence. Others think the earliest may  be 1 Thessalonians. I chose Galatians because in it Paul gives a mini history of himself and pours out a lot of his personal doctrine, much of which is foundational in modern christianity. There is a lot of stuff to cover in  the six short chapters of this book. Not only will we look at what Paul says, but what he doesn't say, especially about Jesus.