Resumes of classes

Class one:

City of Rome--situation, character, general layout (with map)

Imperial history--quick review of emperors from Augustus to Hadrian; some features of each

Population of Rome--method of calculation, results; diversity of population

Jews in Rome--estimate, location, legal position

Jewish connections with Imperial family

27 BCE-14 CE	Augustus	}
14-37	Tiberius	}
37-41	Gaius (Caligula)	} Julio-Claudian dynasty
41-54	Claudius	}
54-68	Nero	}
68-69	Galba	-
69	Otho Vitellius	-
69-79	Vespasian	}
79-81	Titus	} Flavian dynasty
81-96	Domitian	}
96-98	Nerva	}
98-117	Trajan	}
117-138	Hadrian	} Nervo-Trajanic, Antonine dynasty
138-161	Antoninus Pius	}

Class two:

Patronage system

Benefactions (see White in Donfried and Richardson)

Housing (see Jeffers in Donfried and Richardson)

Social status

Romans 16--is it addressed to Rome; a social historical reading of it; house churches (cf. also house synagogues)

The following list repeats the names and descriptions of all the persons named in Romans 16, but adds columns to record some likely deductions, first about who hosted house churches (and how many there were), and second, what the ethnic origin of persons about whom intelligent guesses can be made (some are virtually certain). I conclude that Romans 16 is addressed to Ephesus, not Rome, but that does not affect the main point.

CENCHRAEA
house church	Phoebe	deacon, patron	Roman?
EPHESUS
house church	Prisca and Aquila	fellow-workers, risked life, all the churches of Gentiles	Jews
-	Epaenetus	first convert in Asia	Roman?
-	Mary	worked hard	Jew?
-	Andronicus and Junia	kinsmen, fellow prisoners, noteworthy among apostles, in Christ before Paul	Jews
-	Ampliatus	beloved	Roman?
-	Urbanus	fellow-worker	Roman?
-	Stachys	beloved	Greek?
-	Apelles	approved in Christ	Greek?
house church?	Aristobulus’s family, those who belong	-	Jew
-	Herodion	kinsman	Jew
house church?	Narcissus’s family, those who belong	-	Greek?
-	Tryphaena and Tryphosa	workers in Lord	?
-	Persis	worked hard in the Lord	?
-	Rufus and his mother	eminent in the Lord, my mother	freedman
house church	Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers with them	-	?
house church	Philologus, Julia, Nereus, his sister, Olympas, and all the saints with them	-	?
CORINTH
-	Timothy	fellow-worker	Jew
-	Lucius, Jason, Sosipater	-	Jews
-	Tertius	writer of the letter	freedman
house church	Gaius	host to me and the whole church	Roman
-	Erastus	city treasurer	Roman
-	Quartus	brother (of Tertius?)	freedman

Class three

Recapitulation of Romans 16 and its social-historical information

Romans 1-8

Class four

Romans 9-11

Romans 12-15

A social-historical description of Roman Christianity?

Class five

Student presentations begin today.

In progress. To be completed later