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Paul’s writings are laced with vivid images from the bustling New Testament world. To understand these metaphors, David J. Williams delves into that Greco-Roman world and uses ancient sources to explore a wide variety of topics, such as architecture, law, commerce, health care, and education. Williams studies this world in chapters with such titles as “Life in the City,” “Family Life,” “Slavery...

history, now enjoying something of an upsurge in interest, back to the interpretation of texts, the main function of the exegete.”8 With Paul we move, both culturally and geographically, from the East to the West. The oriental ethos of the Old Testament, and even of the Gospels and some of the other New Testament letters, is in large part left behind as we enter the mainstream of the Greco-Roman world. His figurative language, very different from that of Jesus, the Galilean, which … is full of country
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