
The essay that precedes it I wrote for the 2009 volume. Hendrickson handed the book off to Baker, and Baker returned the rights to me. I reprinted it with slight updates for Josephus, Judea, and Christian Origins: Methods and Categories (Hendrickson 2009). by Ann Jervis and Peter Richardson (1994). The second essay, on Paul's defence of his Euangelion in Romans, first appeared in a FS for Richard Longenecker, Gospel in Paul, ed.

That is why it is programmatically featured only by the Paul-like 'Mark' but then scrubbed by 'Matthew', 'Luke', and 'John', though the first two depend heavily on Mark. Breaking with the prevailing scholarly assumption that 'to euangelion' (usually 'the gospel') was shared among early Christians, who differed only about its content, I argue that this language was distinctively Paul's and understood by both him and his many detractors as such. *Josephus, who secured a favour from her in Rome, apparently attests to her Jewish sympathies (though the word θεοσεβής is problematic), but she actually did the Jews a disservice in securing her friend's husband, *Gessius Florus, the procuratorship (see procurator) of *Judaea in 64 (Vit.This a brace of chapters on Paul's situation in the first Christian generation. Through Poppaea's influence, her native *Pompeii became a colony (see also oplontis). Nero now married Poppaea, who bore a daughter Claudia in 63 both mother and child received the surname Augusta, but the child died at four months. It was allegedly at her instigation that Nero murdered *Iulia Agrippina in 59 and in 62 divorced, banished, and executed *Claudia Octavia.

By 58, during her second marriage, to the future emperor *Otho, she became mistress of Nero (so Tac.Ann.

Poppaeus Sabinus (consul 9 ce, governor of Moesia 12–35), was married first to Rufrius Crispinus, prefect of the praetorians under Claudius, by whom she had a son later killed by *Nero. 31 ce), and named after her maternal grandfather C.
