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

Beverly Roberts Gaventa, Princeton Theological Seminary's Helen H.P. Manson professor of New Testament literature and exegesis, specializes in the interpretation of the Pauline epistles and Luke-Acts. Her numerous publications include "Our Mother Saint Paul" and "Mary: Glimpses of the Mother of Jesus." In her lectures, Gaventa will bring her feminist theological scholarship to the reading of Romans.

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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.