As a result, the reader is literally immersed in the cultural life of the city of Corinth and beyond, the Greco-Roman world. BW has the art of transmitting his scholarship through a thrilling story mixing biblical characters with other actors in his narrative who are fictional. Thus we learn how the different social classes (slaves, artisans, merchants and rich owners) lived together and therefore better understand the problems that we read in Paul’s letters to the Corinthians as well as the solutions recommended by the apostle Paul.
 Throughout the book, BW embellishes his story with gray boxes to give historical and cultural details of life in Corinth: the status of slaves and their possible emancipation, the work of Paul (leather and tents Act 18), the corporations in Roman cities, the advantages of the status of Roman citizen, pagan cults (1 Cor 8 and 10), Greek medicine in antiquity, legal proceedings (1 cor 6), the status of aedile (see Eraste the treasurer), the architecture of houses, domestic codes etc… All these details illuminate in a masterly way the story of the Acts of the […]
