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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Main Author: Winter, Bruce W. 1939- (Author)
Format: Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Tyndale House 2006
In: Tyndale bulletin
Year: 2006, Volume: 57, Issue: 2, Pages: 291-308
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Gallio Achaia, Proconsul / Bible. Apostelgeschichte 18,14-15
IxTheo Classification:HC New Testament
TD Late Antiquity
Further subjects:B Bible. Apostelgeschichte 18,14-15
B Gallio Achaia, Proconsul
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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.
ISSN:0082-7118
Contains:In: Tyndale bulletin