Originally presented as the Bampton Lectures for 1913, preached at the University of Oxford, Edmundson examines a variety of difficult questions related to the church in Rome to whom Paul wrote his Epistle. Looking at its founding, chronology, and history, Edumson surveys the historical context of Rome, the situation of the Jews in the city, and other issues based on texts and literature outside the New Testament. He provides an accessible, but compelling analysis of the event of the first centu...