Gd1234 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 28, 2022 5:42 pm
Another correlation i found in james tabor book "paul and saul"
That Paul’s Hebrew name was Saul we have no reason to doubt. Paul says he is of the tribe of Benjamin, and Saul, the first king of Israel, was also a Benjaminite, so one could see why a Jewish family would choose this particular name for a favored son (1 Samuel 9:21). Since Paul reports that he regularly did manual labor to support himself, and Jewish sons were normally taught some trade to supplement their studies, it is possible he was trained as a leather worker. There is an early rabbinic saying that “he who does not teach his son a trade teaches him banditry.”
it is not even worthy of being called a "correlation", sorry.
