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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...

she would probably have had higher status than poorer male householders. Her status would also be affected by the number of children she had raised.11 Paul’s call does away with the relevance of all this in assessing one’s position. All is faith, a gift. 12:4 For just as in one body we have many parts, and not all the parts have the same function, 5 just so, we who are many are one body in Christ and, individually, we
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