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The Dictionary of New Testament Background joins the Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels, the Dictionary of Paul and His Letters and the Dictionary of the Later New Testament and Its Developments as the fourth in a landmark series of reference works on the Bible. In a time when our knowledge of the ancient Mediterranean world has grown by leaps and bounds, this volume sets out for...

housed in the museum there. The significance of this inscription is less in what the inscription says than in the fact that it mentions in lines 5–6 a person named Lucius Junius Gallio, proconsul of Achaia. The inscription records an edict by the Roman emperor Claudius (A.D. 41–54) referring to Gallio as proconsul. The significance of this inscription for establishing certain facts and dates in early Christian chronology, especially in the book of Acts, cannot be overlooked. Unfortunately, placing
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