Corpus-Paul

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I know Rob Banks personally and read his book. I've also read Wayne Meeks 
book. They are not THE STORY. 

Edward's is not fiction. it is historical fiction that is heavily based on NT 
scholarship and church history.

I think it's easy to broadbrush his work, without recognizing the drastic 
uniqueness of it. 

Can you name a scholar anywhere on the earth in any time that put together an 
entire story of the first century church from Pentecost to Patmos? Thus 
giving us the whole panaromic backdrop of each of Paul's letters in 
chronological order. I realize some are disputed, but the point is, where are 
those scholars that have put together a model of the first-century in 
chronological order.

To my mind, Edwards is the only one that's done this. One other attempted 
this: coneybear and howsen. But their work is very outdated.

Anyways, you seem to brush off what Edwards has written in the book you read. 
But I find nothing in it that contradicted the findings of church historians 
and NT scholars... including Banks' work.

Can you name me a flaw in it... specifically.

Frank Anthony,
Tampa, FL