Comments on: Apartment Living in First Century Rome

By: Josh Mann

Josh Mann — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:35:40 +0000

I’ve not come across any suggestive statistics in this regard.

By: Richard Fellows

Richard Fellows — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:45:42 +0000

Thanks, Josh. Do you have any information on whether upper floors were normally of brick or wood? Also, anything on window coverings? You may have seen my recent blog article on the insula from which Eutychus fell.

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“Sake of Truth” in Biblioblogdom | for the Sake of Truth — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:06:49 +0000

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By: Josh Mann

Josh Mann — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:55:29 +0000

No problem. There are some who suggest Paul was only imprisoned once. They also claim that there are major discrepancies between the details in Acts and the information we’re given in Paul’s writings. I disagree (as do most who tend to be on the ‘conservative’ side of the theological spectrum), though I’ll leave that discussion for another time.

In 2 Timothy, Paul discusses his circumstances as a prisoner awaiting trial (esp. ch. 4). Piecing together a chronology of the NT suggests that this is a second imprisonment in the mid to late 60s.

For more information, you might check out some commentaries on 2 Timothy (or the ‘Pastoral Epistles’- most commentaries on 2 Timothy will actually cover 1 Tim, 2 Tim, $ Titus).

By: Tammy Walhof

Tammy Walhof — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:16:47 +0000

You mentioned a 2nd Roman imprisonment. As we were finishing our study of Acts in Bible Study a couple of weeks ago, a commentary suggested the 2nd different imprisonment. We had always just assumed that Paul was killed at the end of the two year imprisonment in Rome. Unfortunately, the commentary only had a sentence or two about 2 imprisonments. Could you say more or point me to where we could learn more? (My apologies if you’ve already blogged about that. I just stumbled this blog posting by accident tonight with a Google search).

By: Josh Mann

Josh Mann — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:06:13 +0000

Hey Ben! I’m glad you stopped by. Interesting… I’ve never been to Spain, but it seems that apartments haven’t changed too terribly much over the years!

By: Benjamin Anderson

Benjamin Anderson — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:19:15 +0000

Given my limited expierience of life in Europe I would venture to say many of those things are the same to in a Roman apartment today. I can say that there are a lot of similarties to Madrid apartments.

By: Josh Mann

Josh Mann — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:23:28 +0000

Thanks, Mike. Yeah, I visited Rome, Ostia, Pompeii, and Herculaneum in January. Most of the pictures I use for the backgrounds posts will come from the trip.

By: mike

mike — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:07:57 +0000

josh,

i love the pic you provided. is it your own? i certainly get a sense of satisfaction when i use my own pics from israel in presentations and such lol. and, you’ve provided some excellent context here, keep it up.