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Sep 16, 2024 · Life. Paul was a Greek -speaking Jew from Asia Minor. His birthplace, Tarsus, was a major city in eastern Cilicia, a region that had been made part of the Roman province of Syria by the time of Paul’s adulthood. Two of the main cities of Syria, Damascus and Antioch, played a prominent part in his life and letters.
Apr 27, 2021 · Paul knew his culture. The apostle Paul understood the people he was addressing. He was educated and aware that the ideas they shared were contrary to what he knew to be true. But just because he knew the truth, and just because we know the truth, doesn’t mean Christians should be ignorant of the values and beliefs within culture that stand ...
- John G. Gager, Who Made Early Christianity? The Jewish Lives of the Apostle Paul (New York: Princeton University Press, 2015), 17.
- This has been the approach of some biographies of Paul aimed at popular audiences, such as A. N. Wilson, Paul: The Mind of the Apostle (New York: W. W. Norton, 1997); and Hyam Maccoby, The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity (New York: Harper and Row, 1986); however the origin of the idea goes back to F. C. Baur, in particular, Paul: The Apostle of Jesus Christ: His Life and Works, His Epistles and Teachings (London: Williams and Norgate, 1845).
- Daniel Boyarin, A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994).
- For Paul’s early education, see Jerome Murphy-O’Connor, Paul: A Critical Life (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996), 46–51.
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) — Saint Paul "shines like a star of the brightest magnitude in the Church's history, and not only in that of its origins." (Pope Benedict XVI, Audience 25 October 2006).
Paul, the persuasive and powerful Apostle to the Gentiles, had spent almost three years (c. 53-56) in the prosperous and influential port town of Ephesus in modern Turkey, then called Asia. His message was so convicting that even “a number who had practiced sorcery brought their scrolls together and burned them publicly.
Dec 13, 2021 · The apostle’s uniqueness begins to be seen when one takes note of the fact that Paul was bicultural. That is, one who has the “ability to live comfortably in two differing cultural perspectives, crossing freely from one to the other as occasion merits.” 1. Paul was ethnically a Jew and a descendant from the tribe of Benjamin (Phil 3:5).
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Oct 12, 2016 · Paul describes his own life in Philippians 3:5–6, where he lists seven things ascribed to him or achieved by him: He states that he was “circumcised on the eighth day.”. He calls himself “of the people of Israel.”. He says he is “of the tribe of Benjamin.”. He tells his readers that he is “a Hebrew of Hebrews.”.
