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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...

. As a Roman, Paul writes of his mission plans with a map of the Roman Empire in mind (Rom 15:19, 24) and gives no indication that he plans to evangelize in places outside the Empire’s boundaries. His Roman citizenship shows in his recognition that citizens were accountable for two kinds of taxes, tributum (direct taxes) and vectigalia (sales taxes on slave transactions and customs fees), as Romans 13:7 shows, making use of comparable Greek terms for these taxes. The fact that his section
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