Corinth was sacked, burned and leveled by the Roman consul, Leucius Memmius in 146 BC for engaging in a rebellion against Rome. It stayed that way for just over a century. Like Carthage, the site was too strategically and commercially valuable to leave vacant and both sites were selected as Roman colonies by Gaius Julius Caesar shortly before his death in 44 BC.
The Roman world was once more plunged into civil war which only ended in 31 BC. We don't know all that much about Corinth in this time. Greece was a primary battleground between Octavian and Antony/Cleopatra. It is doubtful that there could have been a lot of growth.
We do have three facts which need to be weighed against the xtian hogwash which they put forward.
First, in 67 AD, Titus Flavius Vespasianus campaigning against the Jewish rebels in Galilee sent a "gift" of some 6,000 captured slaves to Emperor Nero for use in his planned construction of a canal across the Isthmus. As far as anyone knows, this was the first time any Jews were ever in the area.
Second, when Vespasian became Emperor he found it necessary to "re-found the colony."
http://corinth.sas.upenn.edu/greekhistory.html
This suggests that the colony was not exactly thriving.
Third, during the reign of Hadrian ( c 135 AD ) the Greek geographer, Pausanias wrote extensively about Corinth and the various shrines found there without noticing any Jewish or xtian communities.
http://books.google.com/books?id=9cJYpYb...ws&f=false
(It's google.books which can't be copied. The reference to Pausanias lack of xtians and Jews appears in the first paragraph.)
This all suggests that the insertion of "Paul" into Corinth's history happened at a much later time. The diaspora of the Jews dates to 135 and the end of the bar Kochba revolt. It would also, not so coincidentally, allow them to reach Corinth after Pausanias left.
The Roman world was once more plunged into civil war which only ended in 31 BC. We don't know all that much about Corinth in this time. Greece was a primary battleground between Octavian and Antony/Cleopatra. It is doubtful that there could have been a lot of growth.
We do have three facts which need to be weighed against the xtian hogwash which they put forward.
First, in 67 AD, Titus Flavius Vespasianus campaigning against the Jewish rebels in Galilee sent a "gift" of some 6,000 captured slaves to Emperor Nero for use in his planned construction of a canal across the Isthmus. As far as anyone knows, this was the first time any Jews were ever in the area.
Second, when Vespasian became Emperor he found it necessary to "re-found the colony."
http://corinth.sas.upenn.edu/greekhistory.html
Quote:Later in the 1st century A.C. a second Roman colony was instituted at Corinth under the Emperor Vespasian, Colonia Iulia Flavia Augusta Corinthiensis.
This suggests that the colony was not exactly thriving.
Third, during the reign of Hadrian ( c 135 AD ) the Greek geographer, Pausanias wrote extensively about Corinth and the various shrines found there without noticing any Jewish or xtian communities.
http://books.google.com/books?id=9cJYpYb...ws&f=false
(It's google.books which can't be copied. The reference to Pausanias lack of xtians and Jews appears in the first paragraph.)
This all suggests that the insertion of "Paul" into Corinth's history happened at a much later time. The diaspora of the Jews dates to 135 and the end of the bar Kochba revolt. It would also, not so coincidentally, allow them to reach Corinth after Pausanias left.
