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- From: "John Dickson" <jdickson AT bigpond.com>
- To: "Corpus-paul" <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Evidence for Paul's existence
- Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 09:02:09 +1000
David Sutherland wrote:
>Outside the NT, does anyone know of any evidence, or references to,
>or for the actual existence of Paul?
>
>Furthermore, apparently the Rabbis kept good records of all their students.
>
>There is no mention of any Saul, who supposedly sat at the feat of
>prominent Rabbi's?
One must keep in mind the dictum: "Absence of evidence is not evidence of
absence."
In any case, the Pauline epistles, Acts and statements in 2 Peter and 1
Clement must be regarded as decisive literary evidence for Paul's existence.
Regards,
John Dickson
Department of Ancient History
Division of Humanities
Macquarie University
Sydney, Australia
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Evidence for Paul's existence,
John Dickson, 09/29/2000
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Evidence for Paul's existence, Frank W. Hughes, 09/29/2000
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