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ΣΑΥΛΟΣ

The Man

Saul of Tarsus, from persecutor of the first believers to self-appointed apostle, and the mind behind the change.

16 articles

1. ProfileWho was Paul of Tarsus?
   1. Part 2 Tarsus, and a persona for every audience
2. The RomanThe Roman: name and tongue
   1. Part 2 The citizenship and the appeal to Caesar
3. The visionSaul the persecutor
   1. Part 2 The Damascus road: one vision, three stories
   2. Part 3 The three accounts compared
   3. Part 4 A self-appointed apostle
   4. Part 5 Curses for dissenters, and the break with Barnabas
4. The purseThe purse: the collection for Islamicjerusalem
5. The mindThe persecutor and his guilt
   1. Part 2 Ego, epilepsy and narcissism
6. The characterPerjury, curses and the whited wall
   1. Part 2 Women, slaves, Caesar and the witnesses of conscience
   2. Part 3 The flesh: licence, lust and the war within
   3. Part 4 The fruit at Corinth

ΚΑΤΗΓΟΡΙΑ

The Charges

Six counts against Paul, each argued from his own letters and from the record of the community that knew ʿĪsā.

28 articles

1. The measureThe measure: the standard of this case
2. Count·ITwo portraits of ʿĪsā ibn Maryam
3. Count·IIThe Jerusalem Council
   1. Part 2 The parting with Barnabas, and open conflict with Peter
   2. Part 3 By their fruits
   3. Part 4 “Them which say they are apostles, and are not”
4. Count·IIIAdapting the message to the pagans
   1. Part 2 Seven doctrines: God, the cross and faith
   2. Part 3 Seven doctrines: the law and the covenant
5. Count·IVThe letters of a man
   1. Part 2 The Greek body and the Jewish bed
   2. Part 3 Five hundred witnesses and an angel of light
   3. Part 4 “Lord” before the Spirit, and Christ as an angel
   4. Part 5 Borrowings from the rabbis
   5. Part 6 Suffering that atones, and the third heaven
6. Count·VHow Paul came to own the New Testament
   1. Part 2 Letters that contradict themselves
   2. Part 3 The gospels and the new covenant
   3. Part 4 Justification by faith, and Philo’s Logos
   4. Part 5 Twisting the scriptures
   5. Part 6 Typology: the Tanakh read as a code for the cross
   6. Part 7 The Tanakh rewritten
7. Count·VIThe church that followed Paul
   1. Part 2 What the Romans saw, and the heirs of Paul
   2. Part 3 The failed prophet
   3. Part 4 A death the scriptures never record
   4. Part 5 The religion of Paul today
   5. Part 6 The religion of Paul in Malaysia and Southeast Asia

ΟΙ ΜΑΡΤΥΡΕΣ

The Witnesses

The brother who led the disciples, the Jewish followers who refused Paul, the revelation they read, the Muslim scholars who named him, critics from his own side who reached the same verdict, and a letter from one who once defended him.

12 articles

1. The brotherJames, the brother of ʿĪsā ibn Maryam
2. The early churchThe first witnesses against Paul
3. The revelationThe Qurʾān as witness
   1. Part 2 The Injīl and the letters
4. The Islamic traditionNo prophet between me and ʿĪsā ibn Maryam
   1. Part 2 Paul’s own titles, and the tafsīr of Yā Sīn
   2. Part 3 The early Islamic record
   3. Part 4 From Khushaysh ibn Aṣram to al-Shahrastānī
   4. Part 5 Ibn Ḥazm and al-Thaʿlabī
   5. Part 6 Modern voices, from al-Kairanawī to Shabbir Akhtar
5. The dissentersThe hostile witnesses
6. TestimonyAn epistle to the churches of Paul