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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...

The obvious implication, then, is that Christianity first took root in Rome within and among the many Jewish synagogues of Rome. This would explain both how Peter could plausibly be regarded as the founder of the church in Rome, and, more to the point, why Paul’s letter is so dominated by the motif “to Jew, but also to Gentile” (Rom 1:16; 2:9–10; 3:9, 29; 9:24; 10:12). That Gentiles were drawn in to the church at Rome sooner or later in the earliest years is clearly implied
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