Behind the New Testament

E. Mary Smallwood

doi:10.1017/S0017383500017381

Behind the New Testament

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2009

E. Mary Smallwood

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It has been the fate of the Jewish people to spend most of their history under foreign rule, and Rome, who governed Palestine during the period of the New Testament and for centuries after it, was only one of a series of powers who throughout the ages became masters of the country for varying lengths of time and controlled it with varying success.

Type: Research Article
Information: Greece & Rome , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , April 1970 , pp. 81 - 99

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0017383500017381 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Classical Association 1970

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^{page 81 note 1} An Alexandrian Jewish writer who died in the early 40s A.d.

^{page 83 note 1} Nor were the Galilaeans, similarly treated shortly after the conquest of Idumaea. ‘Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?’ (John 1: 46).

^{page 85 note 1} The title always rendered ‘the Great’ could equally well mean ‘the elder’ and could have been used to distinguish the first Herod from his successors.

^{page 85 note 2} Matt. 2: 16.

^{page 86 note 1} On St. Luke's dating of the Nativity by a census of the Roman empire see below, pp. 89–90.

^{page 87 note 1} Luke 3: 1.

^{page 87 note 2} Matt. 14: 3; Mark 6: 17; Luke 3: 19.

^{page 87 note 3} Matt, 2: 22–3.

^{page 87 note 4} Luke 13: 32.

^{page 88 note 1} For the end of Antipas' reign see below, p. 94.

^{page 89 note 1} Acts. 5: 37.

^{page 89 note 2} Luke 2: 1–2. The Authorized Version translation ‘taxed’ is misleading.

^{page 89 note 3} Roman Society and Roman Law in the New Testament (Oxford, 1963), 163.Google Scholar

^{page 90 note 1} Ibid., 163–71.

^{page 90 note 2} Luke 3: 23.

^{page 91 note 1} John 19: 12.

^{page 91 note 2} Luke 13: 1.

^{page 91 note 3} Luke 23: 6–12.

^{page 92 note 1} Matt. 26: 1 ff.; Mark 14: 1 ff.; Luke 22: 1 ff.; John 19: 31.

^{page 92 note 2} John 18: 31.

^{page 92 note 3} John 8: 1–11; Acts 6: 8–7: 60.

^{page 92 note 4} John 18: 40.

^{page 93 note 1} Mark 15: 7; Luke 23: 19.

^{page 93 note 2} Acts 12: 1–3.

^{page 93 note 3} Acts 12: 19–23.

^{page 96 note 1} Philip's former tetrarchy was probably attached to the province of Syria at this point. For its later history see below.

^{page 97 note 1} Acts 24: 24.

^{page 97 note 2} He mistook St. Paul for the impostor from Egypt, who had escaped (Acts 22:27–38).

^{page 98 note 1} Acts 23: 12–35.

^{page 98 note 2} Acts 24: 26–7.

^{page 98 note 3} Acts 25: 3.

^{page 98 note 4} Acts 25: 10–26: 32.

^{page 99 note 1} Luke 19: 43–4.

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