1. Open Office Hour NT501 (Dr. David M. May) Synchronous Session, September 23, 7:00 CST

2. Open Office Questions related to the first half of the course, readings, or selection of text-segment?

3. Social Stratification in the Herodian Period Images and Model adapted from Richard Rohrbaugh, “Jesus: Village Artisan,” in The New Testament in Cross-Cultural Perspective (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2007).

4. Urban Elites (1-2%) Roman Emperor (prefect/procurator) Client king, tetrarch or ethnarch Herodians High priests Lay aristocracy

5. Retainers (5%) Bailiffs Tax farmers Bureaucrats

6. Urban Non-elites (3-7%) Merchants Artisans Day Laborers

7. Rural Peasants and Villagers (75%) Freeholders (15-50 acres) Small Freeholders (4-15 acres) Tenant Farmers Village Artisans Day Laborers Slaves

8. Unclean and Degraded (5%) Prostitutes Porters, Dung Carriers Sailors Tanners Etc.

9. Expendables (5%) Lame Blind Deformed Diseased Etc.

10. Open Office How does one choose between competing interpretative perspectives?