Corpus-Paul

["Jack Kilmon" <jkilmon AT historian.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob MacDonald" <bobmacdonald AT home.com>
To: "Corpus-paul" <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 11:15 PM
Subject: [corpus-paul] RE: how old was he


> Jim West asked (with a grin)
> how old was paul when he died? 57 is my guess.
>
> In Philemon 1:9 he calls himself an old man (if that can be accepted as
the
> translation)
> Conjecture in the original English Jerusalem Bible is that he was born
> between 5 and 10 and died between 62 and 67. If Philemon was written in
the
> early 60s, that makes him between 50 and 55 - just old enough to consider
> himself no longer 17 (I speak from my experience of growing up 38 years in
> the past 7).
>
> Could he have studied under Gamaliel in the 20s, ie between the age of 10
> and 20 (assuming the Acts tradition is accepted)?

He would have been 13 when he became "under the law" in Tarsus and studied
at the Synagogue of his father.  He would have had to have been a minimum of
18 when he was at the Beyt Hillel with Gamaliel around 28 CE.

Jack


______________________________________________

taybutheh d'maran yeshua masheecha am kulkon

Jack Kilmon
jkilmon AT historian.net

http://www.historian.net

sharing a meal for free.
http://www.thehungersite.com/