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Richard Fellows writes:

<<  Lystra, on the other hand was rather small (some 5000 people), and we have
 no evidence of a Jewish community there. It could hardly have been a centre
 of Jewish learning, and would surely not have given Timothy the
 qualifications that he needed to be an effective missionary. >>

    Actually, a substantial Jewish presence in and near Lystra is not 
unlikely.  Antiochus I settled Jewish populations in central Anatolia in the 
regions of southern Galatia, Lyconia, eastern Phrygia, etc.  And it is in 
these Jewish communities that Paul evangelized.  I don't see any problem with 
a mixed-marriage Jewish boy coming from any city of central Anatolia.
Jim Miller