ethnical conflict in Graeco roman society

Christopher D. Stanley in one of the articles of Journal’s for the Study of the New Testament titled ‘Neither Jew nor Greek’ talks about the ethnical conflict in Graeco-Roman society. He focuses his writing on four main periods of conflict existence. Before I will go to the summary of the periods I will introduce his definition of ethnicity and conflict. By term ‘ethnic’ he means “not as fixed quality that inheres in some objectively …

…of ethnical conflict made me realize how important was for Jews to have someone who would free them from their oppressors. They were waiting for ‘Survivor’ or’ Messiah’ as gospel's writers called Jesus. Having cultural, religion and political freedom would relieve their pain. I can relate the topic of the article to almost all of the readings from the Gospels. Ethical conflict created a source for biblical especially New Testament writings. Bibliography New Testament Journal, 1998