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Ben Witherington III attempts to reenchant our reading of Paul in this creative reconstruction of ancient Corinth. Following a fictitious Corinthian man named Nicanor through an eventful week of business dealings and conflict, you will encounter life at various levels of Roman society—eventually meeting Paul himself and gaining entrance into the Christian community there. The result is an...

A CLOSER LOOK On Finding Nemo—The Enmity Conventions Going well beyond the modern spirit of competition and rivalry in sports are the ancient enmity conventions. Seneca, the Stoic philosopher and advisor to Nero in Paul’s day, warned “You must be on your guard lest friendships be changed into serious enmities (gravis inimicitias), which are the source of disputes, abuse and invective” (De amicitia 21.78). Indeed such behavior could rapidly escalate into assaults on another man’s person or family.
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