Corpus-Paul

["John Dickson" <jdickson AT bigpond.com>]

I remain open to the possibility that 'temple robbing/sacrilege' in Rom 2:22 
alludes to a rumour such as that found in Antiquities 18.81-84. As many of 
you will know, Josephus here refers to some self-styled rabbis in Rome forty 
years before Paul taking off with expensive gifts intended for the Jerusalem 
temple. The rumour may have been well known in Rome (and to Paul) long 
before Josephus retold it.
Incidentally, desecrating pagan temples (which, in the eyes of some, could 
be seen as act of piety/zeal) does not seem to me to be the sort of charge 
one would lay against the self-styled rabbi of Rom 2.
Regards,
John

Dr. John P. Dickson
Department of Ancient History
Macquarie University
Sydney, Australia