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The Dictionary of Paul and His Letters is a one-of-a-kind reference work. Following the format of its highly successful companion volume, the Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels, this Dictionary is designed to bring students, teachers, ministers and laypeople abreast of the established conclusions and significant recent developments in Pauline scholarship. No other single reference works...

. Arguments advanced against Paul’s Roman citizenship, most recently by Stegemann, have been soundly answered by Hengel. Roman historians also accept Paul’s citizenship as most probable. According to traditions preserved in Jerome (Philemon commentary; Vir. 5) and Photius (Quaest. Amphil. 116), Paul’s parents were carried off as prisoners of war from the Judean town of Gischala to Tarsus. Presumably enslaved to a Roman, they were freed and granted citizenship. The rights of a Roman citizen
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