Saul: False, Liar and Pagan
Saul (Paul, Shaul): False, Liar and Pagan Notes from the book "La vie secrete de saint Paul" by Robert Ambelain. Jerome (De viris Illustribus, ML XXIII, 615-646) says that Saul was born in Gischala and whrn he was a teenager suffered the mass deportation, along with his parents, to Tarsus in Cilicia.This deportation was conducted by Varus 4 or 5 years before the Common Era Saul inconsistencies: First: by the time of the "Stephen's martyrdom" he would be more or less 57 years, then how is that the writer of Acts (7:58) says he was "young"? Who is lying? Second: the deportees and their children were considered by the Roman law in perpetuity as "slaves of Caesar" and they fixed a compulsory residence (in this case would be Tarsus), then how he could be transferred freely to Jerusalem supposedly to learn "at the feet of Gamaliel"? Third: Jewish sources have a record of all students of the wis...