Drawing heavily from antiquity, the Byzantine contribution to education and higher learning is immense, despite often being overlooked.

"This is the best-documented Roman court case from Iudaea apart from the trial of Jesus," said one researcher.

By around the year 58 or 60, though, Paul seems to have felt that he had done as much as he could do in the Greek East and was preparing to move on. When Paul wrote the Roman letter, it's the ...