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  • From: David Noy <sj014 AT lamp.ac.uk>
  • To: "Corpus-paul" <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Rom. 13
  • Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 17:25:59 +0100


>Changing beliefs and practices for a pagan seeking "full" membership with
>Jewish communal and thus religious life would I assume bring disruption to
>the kinship and patronage systems of their life. Trade or other (e.g.,
>dining, burial) concerns involved many in a collegia, which had patron gods
>and opened meetings with a prayer to the deity. Dinner parties and
>festivals involved libation of wine and sacrificial rites and food. Family
>life involved traditional rites such as the worship of "sacra familiae,"
>and rites or passage with attendant worship practices. Are these
>assumptions mistaken, or have I missed your point?
>

No, you're quite right that all these considerations would affect people on
a personal level (although dinner parties and family cults were probably
not of much significance to residents of Roman tenements!), and I'd
certainly agree that sympathisers might find themselves marginalized in
both pagan and Jewish circles. Juvenal's slightly snide reference may be
typical of the sort of reaction people might expect: peer-group pressure
rather than any direct interference by the authorities.

David

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David Noy
Department of Classics, University of Wales, Lampeter SA48 7ED
Tel: 01570 422351 ext 428 Fax: 01570 423877
http://www.lampeter.ac.uk/~davidnoy





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