GR 201: New Testament Greek

This book reflects the wide range of current scholarship on Roman law. The essays, newly commissioned for this volume, cover the sources of evidence for classical Roman law, the elements of private law, as well as criminal and public law, and the second life of Roman law in Byzantium, in civil and canon law, and in political discourse from AD 1100 to the present.

Roman Law: An Introduction offers a clear and accessible introduction to Roman law for students of any legal tradition. In the thousand years between the Law of the Twelve Tables and Justinian's massive Codification, the Romans developed the most sophisticated and comprehensive secular legal system of Antiquity, which remains at the heart of the civil law tradition of Europe, Latin America, and some countries of Asia and Africa.

According to Oxford Bibliographies, this work provides a "clear account of the external history of Roman law and the periodizations commonly used in the discipline. It does not treat individual areas or rules of law but provides an overview of the main period of Roman legal history."

Abstract: This article uses the evidence of the early Christian martyr acts to argue for the existence of a broader, provincial discourse on the importance of legal procedure in criminal trials in the Roman Empire.

Abstract: The article analyses the issues in question by means of a method used in the legal sciences which in the Polish methodology is called “the historical and legal method.” It involves presentation and analysis of selected legal institutions and of their evolution in time.

Abstract: The purpose of this article is to examine in detail Luke 's succinct account of the unsuccessful criminal action by some Corinthian Jews against Paul before the governor of Achaea. This is done in order to understand the nature of the case against Paul, Gallio 's legal reasons for rejecting it, the implication of that ruling for early Christians, and the defense Paul mounted in subsequent Roman criminal proceeding.

Abstract: This article explores the legal contexts which led to the multiple imprisonments experienced by the Paul of the letters (as attested in particular by Phil. 1.13) and depicted also in Acts, contrasting these with the numerous occasions where the apostle faced opposition or even violence from local populations and authorities without being jailed.

Abstract: This article provides an overview of the role of prison in the administration of criminal justice in the Greek East, describes the various levels of jurisdiction in which it served, and identifies the likely mechanism of Paul's imprisonments.

This book "untangles the classical and biblical roots of the Western idea of divine law and shows how early adherents to biblical tradition struggled to make sense of this conflicting legacy."