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Title: Rehabilitating Gallio and his judgement in Acts 18:14-15
Related: Tyndale bulletin, Vol. 57, Issue 2, p.291-308
Related: http://www.tyndalehouse.com/Bulletin.htm
Publisher: Tyndale House, Cambridge University Press
Date: 2006
Author/Creator: Winter, Bruce
Description: By first-century Graeco-Roman standards, a recent assessment of Gallio – a Roman senator, proconsul and consul of Rome – would have been seen as something of a 'damnatio' that resulted in the dismissal of his achievements and the formal disfiguring of his name from the imperial inscription that bears it in Delphi. However, a re-examination of the evidence of ancient witnesses comes to a somewhat different conclusion about this important Roman senator. Such testimonies would confirm Luke’s presentation of this legally competent proconsul who made a landmark judgement under Roman law on the status of the early Christian movement.
Description: 18 page(s)
Subject Keyword: Early Christianity
Subject Keyword: Ancient Roman senator
Subject Keyword: The Acts of the Apostles
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Ancient History

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