Some notes:
- The patronage system was embedded not only in the culture generally but in the religion (polytheism) specifically.
- Religious strife and division for Jews, with each other and with Rome, was a big deal in the first century, including how to relate to Gentiles.
- Jews and the early Christians thought that the Septuagint was divinely inspired.
- Johnson says the most significant division in the history of the church was whether to allow in the uncircumcised; the decision to do so made it possible to go from being a Jewish sect to a potentially world religion.