http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/services/Feed ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:1826 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. 2010-01-27T23:11:51.721Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:3857 This book is not so much a narrative of the "birth" and early years of Christianity as an argument that this birth is able to be documented by the usual methods of historical inquiry. 2010-01-27T22:48:05.065Z ]]>