Rehabilitating Gallio and his judgement in Acts 18:14-15
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...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Tyndale House
2006
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Tyndale bulletin
Year: 2006, Volume: 57, Issue: 2, Pages: 291-308 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Gallio Achaia, Proconsul
/ Bible. Apostelgeschichte 18,14-15
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| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament TD Late Antiquity |
| Further subjects: | B
Bible. Apostelgeschichte 18,14-15
B Gallio Achaia, Proconsul |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 0082-7118 |
| Contains: | In: Tyndale bulletin
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