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Reisner and Campbell and Bowersock and others are ancient historians. For example on Glen Bowersock, excerpted from current Wikipedia: Bowersock has served as lecturer in ancient history at Balliol, Magdalen, and New College, Oxford (1960–62), Professor of Classics and History, Harvard University (...

Why doesn't Paulos ever refer to himself as Saul then? Even when he is making a point of his Jewish heritage?

Correct. The Saul thing is just a creation of the writer of Acts. Just like everything else in the story. ok, but Dubourg is saying that Paul could n't be called Paul independently from his being called Saul via midrash from the biblical Saul. The name "Paul" for Paul is derived midrashic...

I would say that the writer of the fictional Acts was up on his OT. can you be more precise, please ? Do you think that a Paul named P aul existed before Acts talks about a Paul also named S aul ? Correct. The Saul thing is just a creation of the writer of Acts. Just like everything else in the sto...

I would say that the writer of the fictional Acts was up on his OT.

In Damascus, the ethnarc of King Aretas had the city of the Damascenes placed under guard in order to apprehend me. From The New Testament by David Bentley Hart. It is obvious that the Arabians were outside of the city and surrounding it. If this is about Aretas III and Tigranes II then it would mak...

The issue invites speculation. No. It requires speculation, a maryhelenaism for considering the full range of seriously possible hypotheses. Paul leaves out a few details which are some of relevance to our inquiry: Paul does not say that his Aretas controls Damascus. Paul does not say why he wishes...

yakovzutolmai wrote, in part: "Do the Roman epitomes conclusively discount that Aretas IV might have temporarily controlled Damascus during his conflict with Antipas?" No, they don't. That Paul escaped Damascus is, of course, possible. Even Rainer Reisner, who admitted that he could not y...

^ Could have gotten a couple coffees with that 3 bucks. :D I wonder if Carrier even read the links you posted..... Seems all he is interested in is his Jesus from Outer Space....and really, at the end of the day, all that theory is is interpretation of biblical text plus speculation resting on his ...

^ Could have gotten a couple coffees with that 3 bucks. :D I wonder if Carrier even read the links you posted..... Seems all he is interested in is his Jesus from Outer Space....and really, at the end of the day, all that theory is is interpretation of biblical text plus speculation resting on his ...