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  • From: "Mark Goodacre" <M.S.Goodacre AT bham.ac.uk>
  • To: "Corpus-paul" <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: paul's wife
  • Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 12:25:17 +0100


On 22 Oct 2000, at 20:13, Jim West wrote:

> any bib on whether paul was married etc would be appreciated.

Jerome Murphy O'Connor, _Paul: A Critical Life_ (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 62-5. Apparently Paul's
wife and children died in a fire in Jerusalem and Paul's pent-up
desire for vengeance had to be rationalized. It resulted in his
persecution of Christians. The plausibility of this "redirected
anger" hypothesis is "enhanced", says Murphy O'Connor, "by
its ability to explain Paul's silence regarding his wife." (p. 65).
So there you have it; how convinced are you?

Mark
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