Loading...Here is an list of readings on Philippians, most of the books relevant to all the undisputed Pauline epistles, with a couple of commentaries specifically on this significant, short letter. One benefit of serious commentaries is that they always begin by discussing major critical issues in understanding a book: authorship, date, historical context, major themes, disputed issues, and so on.
I devote a fuller discussion of Philippians in my textbook, Bart Ehrman and Hugo Mendez, The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings, 8th ed. (Oxford University Press, 2024), ch. 20. That’s a good place to start for a fuller exposition of what I have given here in my nutshell posts. If you have an earlier edition of the book, it will be pretty much the same, except for the expanded bibliography.
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Dr. Ehrman,
Great topic, what commentary would you recommend for 1 Cor.?
I believe I gave a reading list for 1 Corinthians on the blog, “1 Corinthians For Furhter Reading”
Bart, I’ve noticed in your further reading blogs after your discussions of the NT books that John Dominic Crossan’s work are not mentioned. Is this because your fields of interest don’t match up or do you think Crossan pursues an ideological rather than scholarly purpose in his treatment of Jesus and Paul?
Crossan has written tons on the historical Jesus, but he not so much studies of the individual books in recent decades.