Beverly Roberts Gaventa "Listening to Romans with Junia and Her Sisters"

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Thank you Dr. Gaventa! You created a wonderful picture of the world and the room that Junia and her sisters would be sitting in listening to a letter from St Paul. I particularly picked up on the fact that 40% of the people living in Rome would have been slaves. 60% of the remaining population would have been men and women together. So perhaps 70% of the population would have been owned by 30%. To get out from under the thumb of the 30% the 70% would have had to have been quite good at sending and receiving coded or veiled messages and sneaking in words from other "tongues" to confuse their masters.