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The Greco-Roman World of the New Testament Era: Exploring the Background of Early Christianity is unavailable, but you can change that!

Imagine a modest-sized Roman home of a well-to-do Christian household wedged into a thickly settled quarter of Corinth. In the lingering light of a summer evening, men, women and children, merchants, working poor and slaves, a mix of races and backgrounds have assembled in the dimly lit main room are spilling into the central courtyard. This odd assortment of gathered believers--some thirty in...

[The Jews] think it as great a crime to eat pork, from which their parents abstained, as human flesh. They get themselves circumcised, and look down on Roman law, preferring instead to learn and honor and fear the Jewish commandments, whatever was handed down by Moses in that arcane tome of his.… But their fathers were the culprits; they made every seventh day taboo for all life’s business, dedicated to idleness. JUVENAL SATIRE 14.98–106 So Paul, standing
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