From Pompeii to Rome: Paul's Letter and its Hearers

这个项目测试了一个想法，即研究一世纪的罗马社会结构可以对保罗给罗马人的信提供有用的信息。它首先从最近对庞培住房的研究中得出了庞培社会的基本模型。然后，它修改了这一点，提供了社会模式，首先，为宝莲教堂一般，然后为世纪中期的公寓教堂在罗马。四种方法被用来测试这个模型作为研究保罗的信的解释性工具：考虑的问题，在有关的社会多样性之间的听众;语境化的身份语言的圣洁，并考虑这一关系的神圣的信的神学;语境化的道德规劝;语境化的修辞团结。

This project tests the idea that study of first-century Roman social structures can shed useful light on Paul's letter to the Romans. It begins by deriving a rudimentary model of Pompeian society from recent research on its housing. It then modifies this to provide social models, first, for Pauline churches in general, then for mid-first-century apartment-churches in Rome. Four methods are used to test this model as an interpretative tool for studying Paul's letter: consideration of issues in relation to social diversity among the hearers; contextualisation of identity language about holiness, and consideration of the relationship of this to holiness in the letter's theology; contextualisation of moral exhortations; contextualisation of rhetoric on unity.