An Anomalous Jew: Paul among Jews, Greeks, and Romans Fiction - Classic Some turned to their bibles

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May 21 2010

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An Anomalous Jew: Paul among Jews, Greeks, and Romans Fiction - Classic Some turned to their biblesLively, well informed portrait of the complex figure who was the apostle Paul Though Paul is often lauded as the first great Christian theologian and a champion for Gentile inclusion in the church, in his own time he was universally regarded as a strange and controversial person. In this book Pauline scholar Michael Bird explains why. An Anomalous Jew presents the figure of Paul in all his complexity with his blend of common and controversial Jewish