Biblical Studies. Peter Oakes and Loveday Alexander represented Manchester at the Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense at KU Leuven on Christianity in Civic Space (July 18-21). Peter presented a short paper on the use of the term politeuma, which is often incorrectly translated as ‘citzenship’ in Philippians 3:20, where Paul writes, ‘our politeuma is in heaven’. Peter’s paper gathered instances of the term across media (inscriptions, papyri, literary texts) and periods (from earliest uses to Late Antiquity) and suggested a framework for categorising the various uses of the term. The paper is part of Peter’s work in preparing a commentary on Philippians. The colloquium papers will be published in a volume edited by John Kloppenborg, university of Toronto.
