The pre-Christian Paul

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I. Origin and Citizenship

1. Tarsus as a cultural metropolis

2. The political situation of Tarsus and citizenship of the city

3. Roman citizenship and the names Paul and Saul

4. Social origin and profession

II. Upbringing and Education: Tarsus of Jerusalem?

1. Lukes accounts and pauls own testimony

1.1 The thesis of W.C. van Unnik

1.2 Galatians 1.22 and the objections to an early stay by Paul in Jerusalem

2. Paul's own testimony about his origins

2.1 A Hebrew of the tribe of Benjamin

2.2 The Pharisee

2.3 The problem of the Diaspora Pharisee

3. A "Hebrew of the Hebrews" who writes Greek: the problem of Paul's "Greek education"

4. Summary hypotheses

III Pharisaic Study of the Law in Jerusalem

1. The Pharisaic house of learning

2. The Problem of " Pharisaic" before 70

3. Pauline theology and rabbinic literature

4. Parallels from apocalyptic and Essences

5. The Character of Pharisaism before 70

IV Greek-speaking Jerusalem and Greek Synagogue Education

1. Jerusalem as "Greek city"

2. Possibilities for higher Jewish- Greek education in Jerusalem

3. Summary hypotheses

V. The Persecutor

1. The question of chronology

2. The biography of the persecutor

3. The persecutor and his own Opponets

3.1 The Greek speaking Jewish Christians in Jerusalem

3.2 Problems in Luke's account of Stephen and parallels with Paul

3.3 The meaning of in Paul and Luke

3.4. The place of the persecution: The problem of Gal.1.22f

4. The theological reasons for the persecution

5. Summary: Paul the persecutor

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