or awning makers”), and had transported their trade to Corinth (Acts 18:3). Some scholars assume that one should consider them to have been leatherworkers, making anything from tents to harnesses to sandal thongs, but there is no reason not to employ the traditional meaning of the Greek word. Inscriptions provide evidence for an association of tent makers (collegium tabernaclariorum) in Rome (Barrett 1998, 863). In addition to the routine use of tents or awnings for shade and shelter in theaters