Reading Romans in Pompeii: Paul’s Letter at Ground Level (Biblia.com)

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Peter Oakes relies on demographic information and data from excavations in nearby Pompeii to paint a compelling portrait of daily life in a typical insula, or apartment complex, like the ones in which Paul’s audience in Rome likely lived. Imaginatively fleshing out profiles of the circumstances of actual residents of Pompeii, Oakes then uses these profiles to invite the reader into a new way to...

The doorway leads through to a small side room, about 2.5 m × 4.5 m (Figure 1.2).2 At the extreme left of the photograph is a patch of white plasterwork. The plasterwork was decorated simply but attractively in the Pompeian ‘Fourth Style’ (current from about the middle of the first century CE: see below), including a depiction of a pair of birds. Clearly overlaying this plasterwork is the back end of the lower portion of the stairs leading up from doorway 5 to its separate apartment. The overlaying

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