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Chapter VI - “In those days Mary set out …”

Travel by the Lower Classes in Roman Times

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 July 2019

Sabine R. Huebner
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Universität Basel, Switzerland
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Chapter VI examines the peripatetic lifestyle of Jesus and his followers, his family, his disciples, and the apostles. Studies of ancient mobility usually restrict themselves to consideration of the Roman elites and other closely associated issues such as the cursus publicus. Despite their low social status, the travel patterns of the various biblical protagonists did not represent anything unusual within the context of Greco-Roman society. Epigraphic records and literary sources confirm the story told by papyrus customs receipts and private letters indicating a high level of mobility among the lower classes of the Roman Empire.

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