Talk:Paul of Tarsus/Archive1
I would like to write[edit]
I would like to write the page for Paul, but as I started writing about his knowledge of Jesus, his road side conversion, it seemed I read this here already. I'll see if I can find any page about him, or a general page about his Epistles. If anyone knows of one, could you direct me to it or redirect this name to it (and delete the page)? Thanks if you find anything before I do. --WaitingforGodot 17:27, 21 July 2008 (EDT)
- I don't think so - can't find anything, anyway. Sometimes these things are in Fun: namespace, but nothing there, either. --AKjeldsenCum dissensie 18:00, 21 July 2008 (EDT)
- "Place holder. I sware I have seen a page on Paul here." You surely did. I wrote something fairly blasphemous at some point. I wonder where? ħuman
05:10, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
- "Place holder. I sware I have seen a page on Paul here." You surely did. I wrote something fairly blasphemous at some point. I wonder where? ħuman
"Many years later, a confirmed bachelor from Tarsus, known as Saul,..." I wrote at Fun:Jesus when it was in the mainspace before Proxima Centauri went on a "de-Christing" rampage and fucked up our wiki. ħuman 05:13, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
14 letters[edit]
Only 13 are listed. I counted three times. ħuman 07:39, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
- I think the 14 is a reference to Hebrews which was long said to be written by Paul.--BruceGrubb (talk) 11:04, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
Conclusion[edit]
This is a pretty nice article and well-written. But it sort of end abruptly - perhaps a good section concluding it could be done by someone who knows more about the topic than I? (Like, the persons who wrote most or all of this) ħuman 07:46, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
Godot is right, 1 Corinthians 15:4 mentions the resurrection. My source refers to the empty tomb,
Of course, there is no evidence of an empty tomb outside the gospels (even Paul doesn’t reference one, and his writings are older). Analysis and Commentary of Mark 16:1-8 The Empty Tomb
Proxima Centauri (talk) 08:32, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
Like the Romans[edit]
... To Rome you have appealed; to Rome you shall go.
Those writing up/organising what is called the New Testament considered this significant enough to record. Can it be deduced that none of the other Judeans mentioned had Roman citizenship (apart from possibly Herod)? 171.33.197.73 (talk) 16:14, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
- "Before 212, for the most part only inhabitants of Italia held full Roman citizenship" according to WP:Roman citizenship, so probably not, and I can't imagine a bunch of people denying the Roman Pantheon getting much favourable treatment. SophieWilder
16:56, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
... so most of the subjects of the NT are second class (insert dog-Latin Roman soldier snarl words here) non-citizens. 86.171.243.13 (talk) 20:49, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
- Only from a Roman point of view. SophieWilder
21:11, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
- The point I was making. (The soldiers probably had negative nicknames for most groups encountered - including civilians and their superior officers (and 'the bald adulterer' was probably very mild).) 171.33.222.26 (talk) 14:40, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
- Of the three quotes, one is Biblical and one refers to Julius Caesar. 171.33.222.26 (talk) 15:14, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
- ... and the third is the title of a biography. 171.33.197.73 (talk) 15:49, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
- Of the three quotes, one is Biblical and one refers to Julius Caesar. 171.33.222.26 (talk) 15:14, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
Paul's Name[edit]
Is it me, or is it Paul of Taurus? It's what I see a lot. Zexcoiler Kingbolt (talk) 00:26, 9 September 2015 (UTC)Zexcoiler Kingbolt
- Afraid you're mistaken. His name if Saul/Paul(us) of Tarsus. 142.124.55.236 (talk) 00:32, 9 September 42015 AQD (UTC)
- Yup, Tarsus.
That is just south of the Taurus mountains,
which may explain some confusion. SmartFeller (talk) 01:23, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
- Yup, Tarsus.
Paul and Paulus are simply the Hellenic and Latinate forms, respectively, of the Hebrew name שָׁאוּל/Saul/Shaul. As corroborated by modern archeology and the testimony of early Christian authors from the Ante Nicene Period such as Irenaus, Melito, and Ignatius (who was from Antioch himself), the Tarsus Paul is connected to was actually a small, neighboring village whose chief source of imports was Syrian Antioch. See F.F. Bruce's New Testament History, and E.P. Sander's Paul and Palestinian Judaism. Propianotuner (talk) 13:26, 21 April 2016 (UTC)