Editing Epistle to the Colossians (section)

===Date===
If the text was written by Paul, it could have been written at Rome during his first imprisonment.<ref>[[Acts of the Apostles|Acts]] {{Bibleref2-nb|Acts|28:16}}, {{Bibleref2-nb|Acts|28:30}}</ref><ref name="ESV Study Bible">{{Cite book|chapter=Introduction to the Book of Colossians|title=ESV Study Bible|publisher=Crossway|date=2008|isbn=978-1433502415}}</ref> Paul would likely have composed it at roughly the same time that he wrote [[Epistle to Philemon|Philemon]] and [[Epistle to the Ephesians|Ephesians]], as all three letters were sent with [[Tychicus]]<ref>Ephesians 6:21</ref> and [[Onesimus]]. A date of 62 AD assumes that the imprisonment Paul speaks of is his Roman imprisonment that followed his voyage to Rome.<ref>Acts 27-28</ref><ref name="ESV Study Bible"/>

Other scholars have suggested that it was written from Caesarea or Ephesus.<ref>[[N. T. Wright|Wright, N. T.]], Colossians and Philemon, Tyndale New Testament Commentaries (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1986), pp. 34–39.</ref>

If the letter is not considered to be an authentic part of the Pauline corpus, then it might be dated during the late 1st century, possibly as late as AD 90.<ref name="Mack, Who">[[Burton L. Mack|Mack, Burton L.]] (1996), ''Who Wrote the New Testament?'' San Francisco: Harper Collins.</ref>