Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: jclark@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (John Clark) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: About Paul... Message-ID: Date: 30 May 91 03:56:20 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of California, San Diego Lines: 22 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article daly@strawber.princeton.edu (John Daly) writes: +It is my impression that Paul had a formidable knowledge of Roman +law. For example, when he is taken to court near the end of Acts, +he serves as his own legal counsel. What were Paul's educational In Classic Greek times(400 B.C.), an Athenian Citizen(male) was required to be able to both defend against legal action as well as prosecute. Any citizen could bring a charge against another for infractions of Law. I use the term 'required' loosely. A person could draft friends to assist in his defense, but it seems that self-defense was considered better. How wide spread this idea was, I can not say. But I beleive this was wide spread in the 'Greek' world. The Roman's at the time of the Empire did have lawyers so it would seem that the weight of precedence and 'legalism' had become so great that an ordinary citizen would have use the lawyer's services in defense of some charge. -- John Clark jclark@ucsd.edu