Corpus-Paul

["Stephen.Finlan" <Stephen.Finlan AT durham.ac.uk>]

> [Mark wrote

> Greeks believed
> that the entire community implicated each other if anyone or family
> failed to publicly express, e.g., worship of the imperial cult,
> fearing reprisals both in commercial and spiritual terms. The
> pressure to comply would be immense, unless they could appeal to a
> legitimate transformation of identity so that their failure to
> participate any longer was not a threat

Quite likely, but can you provide evidence, examples, info
about the situation on the ground in Galatia?  Do we have first
century examples of reprisals taken against non-conformist 'pagans'
in Asia Minor?
  All of this sounds very abstract, currently.

Stephen Finlan
University of Durham