Abstract
Since 1929, many specialists have claimed that Paul's oikonomos Erastus was identical to an aristocratic Erastus named in a Latin inscription from Corinth. This chapter argues that we can disentangle the inked Erastus from the inscribed one. They were two different individuals, one from the highest sector of elite society and the other from a lower level. Rather than framing the research within an ideology of privilege and upward mobility, the author considers only the upward mobility of the few while ignoring the many who were left behind. The chapter also argues that the Greek phrase ' oikonomos of the city' cannot be used as an equivalent for the Latin aedile because the latter was one of the highest offices in the colony. Finally the chapter suggests that Erastus the oikonomos was not even a participant in Paul's churches. Keywords:Corinth; Erastus; oikonomos ; Paul's churches
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