![]() ![]() Acts 18:1, 2), which included all the Peloponnesus and most of the rest of Greece and Macedonia.” Culture of Corinth It was during this period that “Corinth became the capital of the Roman province of Achaia (cf. ![]() The Romans rehabilitated the city after the pattern of a typical Roman city. But in 46 BC, Julius Caesar rebuilt the city and filled it with retired war veterans and freedmen. There was some sort of Jewish population in Corinth-at least big enough to have a synagogue (Acts 18:4), and Philo confirms the fact that Jews lived in Corinth during the dispersion. On average, roughly 200,000 people populated this booming city at its peak with as many as “half a million slaves in its navy and in its many colonies.” Indeed, scholars estimate the population anywhere from 100,000 to 700,000 people-most of whom were slaves. Ĭorinth was a large trade-city, so it attracted traders, sailors, and business people. The narrow isthmus on which Corinth was located, contained a path, the diolkos, across which mariners would drag their unloaded boats, between the Adriatic and Aegean Sea, rather than sail over a hundred miles out of their way around the southern tip of Achaia.” Today, a canal cuts through the Isthmus, but this wasn’t created until 1893. Craig Blomberg writes, “Tucked between the two port towns of Cenchrea and Lechaeum, formed a major center of trade. The ancient Greek poet Pindar referred to Corinth as “the bridge of the sea.” Instead of sailing hundreds of miles out of their way, sailors simply dragged their boats across the narrow Isthmus of Corinth (which was about 3 or 4 miles wide). 124 Geography of CorinthĬorinth was located between two major sea ports. Morris dates the book to the mid-fifties, and cites “wide agreement” on this amongst NT scholarship. Thus, most NT scholars date this letter sometime in the late winter or early spring of 55 AD. Therefore, Paul probably wrote this letter sometime in between a two-and-a-half-year span, while he was at Ephesus from the autumn of 52 to the spring of 55 AD (Acts 19:10 20:31). 16:8), after just planting the church there (Acts 18:18-21). Moreover, Paul writes that he was still in Ephesus when he wrote 1 Corinthians (1 Cor. When Paul wrote his letter to the Corinthians, this was obviously after he stood before Gallio, placing the date after AD 51. Archaeologists uncovered the famous “Gallio stone,” which dates the beginning of Gallio’s office to the early summer of AD 51. We know this because he stood before the proconsul Gallio (Acts 18:12), whom we recognize and know from secular history. 33, 11:46Īrchibald Robertson and Alfred Plummer write, “Both the external and the internal evidence for the Pauline authorship are so strong that those who attempt to show that the Apostle was not the writer succeed chiefly in proving their own incompetence as critics.” More recently, Carson and Moo write, “Paul is identified as the author in the opening verses of both epistles, and few have contested the claim.” Even critical scholar Hans Conzelmann writes, “The authenticity of the epistle is universally recognized.” Date Tertullian, On the Prescription of Heretics, Ch.Clement of Alexandria, The Paedagogus 1, 6.Clement of Rome, To the Corinthians, 47:1. ![]() Several very early Christian leaders confirmed Paul’s authorship of this book: Paul is the author of this letter, and even critical scholars do not generally dispute this claim. ![]() Rochford Download an mp3 teaching series from James HERE! Authorship ![]()
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