Ecclesial Solidarity in the Pauline Corpus. James T. Hughes

target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="#ulink_a9d6319d-128e-5fcc-b840-6160a8b3e1fe">347. Coenen, “Church,” 292.

348. Schmidt, “ἐκκλησία,” 517, although he also notes on 518 that συναγωγή can be used of the Christian community.

349. Giles, What on Earth, 237–38.

350. Best, Ephesians, 623; Schnelle, Apostle Paul, 560.

351. Coenen, “Church,” 292.

352. Ward, “Ekklesia,” 166.

353. Campbell, “Origin and Meaning,” 133.

354. Coenen, “Church,” 292

355. Coenen, “Church,” 294.

356. Coenen, “Church,” 295. He finds similar usage in the Qumran on 296. For a similar distinction see Johnston, Doctrine, 36–37.

357. Giles, What on Earth, 233.

358. Giles, What on Earth, 234.

359. Giles, What on Earth, 235.

360. Giles, What on Earth, 241–43. For a more general critique of this view, see Peterson, “Locus,” 212–13.

361. See Schmidt, “ἐκκλησία,” 529.

362. Philo, Post. 144; Philo, Her. 251; Philo, Decal. 32, 45.

363. Compare Du Toit, “Paulus Oecumenicus,” 132–43.

364. Compare Schmidt, who describes ἐκκλησία as “a wholly secular term,” given meaning by the context, by who constitutes the assembly (“ἐκκλησία,” 527).

365. Adams, Earliest Christian Meeting Places, 9–15

366. Adams, Earliest Christian Meeting Places, 18–44.

367. Adams, Earliest Christian Meeting Places, 156.

368. Adams, Earliest Christian Meeting Places, 179–80.

369. Adams, Earliest Christian Meeting Places, 196–97.

370. Adams, Earliest Christian Meeting Places, 200.

371. Gehring, House Church, 35–42.

372. Gehring, House Church, 63–69.

373. Gehring, House Church, 131–54.

374. Gehring, House Church, 31–35, 65–69.

375. Jewett, Romans, 53–55.

376. Oakes, Reading Romans, 1–45.

377. Oakes, Reading Romans, 69–97. Note that Oakes argues against Jewett’s tenement churches, as does Balch, “Paul, Families, and Households,” 259.

378. Horrell, “Domestic Space,” 367–68.

379. See the survey of various views on size and location in Adams, “First-century Models,” 63–68. See also Linton, “House Church Meetings,” 234–38.

380. Oakes, Reading Romans, 80–84.

381. Oakes, Reading Romans, 89–97.

382. De Vos, Church and Community Conflicts, 154.

383. De Vos, Church and Community Conflicts, 250–61.

384. Murphy-O’Connor, “House-Churches,” 129–34. See also Banks, Paul’s Idea, 35–36, who argues for a church size of around thirty to forty-five people, and Richards, Paul and First-century, 41, who estimates church size at forty to fifty based on “the house of the tragic poet” in Pompeii.

385. Watson, “Two Roman Congregations,” 203–15, argues for separate Jewish and gentile congregations, whilst Lampe, “Roman Christians,” 216–30, identifies seven or eight congregations and divisions. See also Jewett, Romans, 61–62.

386. Gehring, House Church, 66, 68.

387. De Vos, Church and Community Conflicts, 195–205.