Quote by Kamal Salibi

“Why did Paul, having experienced his revelations of Jesus as the Son of God, decide to go at once to Arabia instead of Jerusalem?”

— Kamal Salibi

“Paul did go to Arabia, and not to Jerusalem, immediately following his conversion.”

— Kamal Salibi

“Paul may be an excellent source for those interested in the early formation of Christianity, but he is a poor guide for uncovering the…

— Reza Aslan

“Moreover, it is not just that the early documents are silent about so much of Jesus that came to be recorded in the gospels,…

— George Albert Wells

Paul's lack of concern with the historical Jesus is not due, as some have argued, to his emphasis on Christological rather than historical concerns.…

— Reza Aslan

The legendary missionary journey of St. Paul, which led to the foundation of the British church, presupposes the existence of a Jewish community -…

— Cecil Roth

“Paul the Jew, whose controlling story had always included the narrative whereby the living God overthrew the tyrant of Egypt and freed his slave-people,…

— N.T. Wright

“If there is a single fact which anyone who seriously studies the history of Christianity cannot help but be struck by, it is the…

— Savitri Devi

“Discovering the Jewishness of Jesus and of the Early Jesus movement is a crucial step in the continual process of accurate interpretation of the…

— Eli Lizorkin-Eyzenberg

“Before Jesus, it was all about earning and meriting and performing, and Paul knew that would eat us all alive—as it has.”

— Richard Rohr

“Moreover, this earlier tradition has a different view of Christ than the one that Paul explicates elsewhere in his surviving writings. Here, unlike in…

— Bart D. Ehrman

“This is an extremely difficult matter for modern readers of the gospels to grasp, but Luke never meant for his story about Jesus's birth…

— Reza Aslan