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  • From: MillerJimE AT aol.com
  • To: corpus-paul AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Corpus-Paul] Re: Mixed Marriages . . .
  • Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 18:36:31 EST

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




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