look, capitalism is bad, so all things that are bad are capitalism.
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I am reluctant to over-conflate Biblical Rome with the Rome that actually existed in fact. What Rome actually was and did isn't particularly relevant to what biblical Rome actually was and did. (Unless you want an extra-textual guilty party to blame the Crucifixion on.)
Er, no. The Biblical Rome is the Rome that actually existed, on account of the New Testament being written entirely by people who lived within the Roman empire during the period of existence. These are primary sources. I often find that the public sense of the dating...
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...and thus potential primary-source usefulness of the New Testament is *really* out of step with the scholarship. The synoptic gospels all probably date from the first century (the only real first century authorship question is John). And of the Pauline epistles...
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...seven are generally accepted as written *by Paul* (or more correctly, written by a single author who, Occam's razor, ought to be identified as Paul). To be clear, I'm not saying this is the religious tradition, but rather the secular scholarly position.
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