The Reality of Empire
Taken from PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD
author: N T Wright
contributor: SPCK - N T Wright
Description
Chapter Five THE EAGLE HAS LANDED:
ROME AND THE CHALLENGE OF EMPIRE
2. The Reality of Empire
(I) Introduction
By the time Paul was born, the empire of Augustus Caesar stretched from one sea to another – the Black Sea to the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean to the English Channel – and from the river Euphrates to the ends of the known world, the far western outposts of Spain and France...
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