Galatians

Date Written - A.D. 54-55.
The date of Galatians is dependent on where the letter was sent. Galatia was not a city but a region in Asia Minor or modern day Turkey. Paul had visited the cities in southern Galatia on his first and second Missionary Journeys. If Paul is writing to these churches then his letter would have been written shortly after his first missionary journey. This date would be around A.D. 49 and probably written from Antioch in Syria. This view would make Galatians one of Paul's earliest writings.

Still others say that Paul was writing the Celtic peoples of northern Galatia. Given this line of thinking Paul probably would have written it after his third missionary journey after passing through Galatia and Phrygia mentioned in Acts 18:23. It is speculated that under this view Paul would have written the letter from Ephesus or in Macedonia on his way to Greece. (Acts 10:1-6) Accepting this view would place its writing in A.D. 54 or 55.

Whichever view is taken does not affect the message of the book. There is no reason to doubt that the Churches mentioned in Galatia were established by Paul during one of his visits.