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For some of us, the Apostle Paul is like a distant uncle. We’ve heard he’s pretty important. We’ve read the good parts of his letters. But sometimes he comes across as prickly and unpredictable. Not someone you’d like to hang out with at a coffee shop. He’d raise his voice, try to convert the barista, and we’d want to slink out the back door. For a mid-afternoon latte, we’d prefer Jesus over...

there was a great deal of commonality in letter-writing customs.2 From England to Egypt, we find Greco-Roman letters following the same format and using the same language, and even generally the same diction and rhetoric. Even while the Jews (and some other cultures) stubbornly held on to their local languages, they still followed the general format of the Greco-Roman letter. When we compare Greek and Latin papyrus letters, we find them strikingly similar, even though the languages were different.
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