Corpus-Paul

["Mark Goodacre" <M.S.GOODACRE AT bham.ac.uk>]

Gerd Luedemann claims that Paul was a Roman citizen -- see for example _Early 
Christianity According to the Traditions in Acts: A Commentary_ (ET, London: 
SCM, 1989), pp. 240f.  I am inclined to think that if Luedemann doesn't doubt 
it, then there must be something in it : ) .  However, he refers to a 
comprehensive study of the question in W. Stegemann, "War der Apostel Paulus 
ein roemischer Buerger?", ZNW 87 (1987), pp. 200-29.  Stegemann argues 
(apparently) that the author of Acts concluded from Paul's transportation to 
Rome that he was a Roman citizen.

Mark
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