Jesus & the Rise of Early Christianity: A History of New Testament Times by Paul Barnett

Author:Paul Barnett [Barnett, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Intervarsity Press - A
Published: 2009-09-30T04:00:00+00:00

8 Babylonian Talmud Ketubbot 105a; cf. Fiensy, “Composition,” pp. 233-34.

9 Rainer Riesner, “Synagogues in Jerusalem,” in The Book of Acts in Its First Century Setting: 4. Palestinian Setting, ed. Richard Bauckham (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1995), pp. 192-201. The layout of the text above follows Riesner, who has reproduced the Greek inscription.

10 Riesner, “Synagogues,” pp. 194-95.

11 Such a synagogue is rendered historically plausible by Philo, Embassy to Gaius 155-56, who refers to the Jewish quarter of Rome. He describes the Jews there as mostly Roman citizens who had formerly been captured by the Romans and brought as slaves to the city, where, for the most part, they had been manumitted. Philo notes that these Jews maintained their historic faith.

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