REL275 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Tertius Of Iconium, First Epistle To The Thessalonians
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5 october: romans 16, the scribe, feminist approaches/issues, tertius, in verse 7, the name junia is female, but for 20 centuries, had been translated as junius. Up to this point he had not been to rome. Why is he dropping names, greeting everyone: founding, community, chrestus, purposes, community has both ethnic groups (jews and non-jews). Knows aquila and pricilla quite well: something happened in rome before statrt of this community because of a certain name: chrestus. Jews, because could not discern who was part of this or not. Romans could not separate followers from non-followers of christ. For them, just a sect of jewish people. Paul greeting many people ebecause he met them outside of rome. Wanted to gather support, clear a path for him to come to rome: expulsion of jewish emperor claudius around 49, romans 1, 1:1, paul is writing. Only him here, where before he wrote with.
