Background study is the key to understanding what was written and why. In this section of the lecture "The First Epistle to Timothy. Background" Bruce Dick  talks about  the nature of pastoral epistles, which begin with an explicit identification of the Apostle Paul as its author. The teacher answers the following questions: 

- Who is Paul?

- Who was Timothy? 

- What was the relationship of Timothy to the author?

- Where is Paul when he writes 1 Timothy? 

- Where is Timothy?