Abstract
Abstract The story of Christianity in Anatolia begins at the beginning. The Acts of the Apostles place the evangelization of the south Galatian communities of Pisidian Antioch, Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe at the centre of St Paul’s first missionary journey outside Syria and Palestine. More still, there is good reason to think that the Epistle to the Galatians was written soon after this journey, and thus becomes, quite simply, the earliest surviving document of the Christian church. These two sources together offer an unhoped-for, if elusive, glimpse into the Jewish, pagan, and nascent Christian communities of central Asia Minor in the middle of the first century AD. The information which they provide is hard to interpret, both because it is so isolated and because there is so much room for argument about the sources from which it comes, but it is a privilege to have so much with which to work.
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