Corpus-Paul

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

Runar M. Thorsteinsson wrote:

> Note, however, that the main concern of Ant. 18.81-84 is really not 
> "temple
> robbery", but the deception and rip-off conducted by "a complete 
> scoundrel"
> against a high-ranking Roman matron (a proselyte), whose husband was a
> consular and a friend of emperor Tiberius.
> (Note also, in that light, that Josephus does not speak of this incidence 
> as
> an act of hierosylein; neither the verb nor its cognates occur in the 
> text.)

Thank you, Runar. Yes, indeed. However, my point was not etymological but 
historical. In both Ant. 18.81-84 and Rom 2:17-22 we read an extended 
criticism of would-be rabbis teaching Gentiles the Torah in Rome and then 
desecrating/robbing a temple. If historical, the rumour retold in 
Antiquities must have been very public, making a typological reference to 
such events in Rom 2:22 at least possible. That is all I was saying.
Kind regards,
John

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