What shocks him is the extremism of his faith. He was drawn to theological stringency, melodramatic all-or-nothings, and obnoxiously proud circularity. A believer knows that God exists. One has an opinion, the other knowledge. There are no references and very few named sources, yet the material appears to rely on the established record, and is clearly built from the same archival labor that a conventional biographer would perform.
He likes intervening frames. Instead of surreptitiously fictionalizing his story of the rise of early Christianity, he proceeds like a freelance—and slightly offbeat—scholar. His inquiry into the lives and testimonies of Paul and Luke, and their journeys through the far-flung extremities of the Roman Empire, is scrupulously thorough, and relies on an enormous amount of reading, gently summoned.
He likes to psychologize, to reconstruct scenes and episodes, to speculate when the historical record is thin. He lightly amplifies four fairly reticent verses from the Acts of the Apostles, our only source. But there is a little group that gathers outside the walls on the banks of a river, to celebrate the Sabbath in an informal way.
On the contrary, they thank God for having sent them such a learned rabbi. In silence, the bread and the wine are passed around the table, and everyone eats a piece of bread, drinks a mouthful of wine. In memory, Paul says, of the last meal that the savior ate on this earth before being crucified. Local Jews might well be hostile to an upstart group that espoused such beliefs as the notion that the Messiah was God made flesh, or that we will be spiritually and physically restored to eternal life in a heavenly kingdom.
The Romans mainly left the Christians alone until Nero the emperor between 54 and 68 A. For several reasons, perhaps. We know more about Paul than about Jesus. But it was another thing entirely to claim—as Paul did—that Jesus came to earth to wash away an original sin contracted by humans in Eden; that this Jesus was crucified by the Romans, was buried, and rose from the dead; and that he would soon come again, in a rescue mission that would usher in a new eternal kingdom.
In place of the intimate, familial struggle of the Jews and their God, Paul invokes a strict theology of sin and salvation. Paul was born Saul, in Tarsus now in Turkey , perhaps a few years after the birth of Jesus, whom he never met. He was a devout student of Judaism, and was sent to Jerusalem for schooling with one of the most eminent rabbis of the age. During the next twenty years, this incandescent missionary visited Christian churches and communities from Corinth to Antioch; and when he could not reach them he wrote to them, setting down the epistles that form with the Gospels the core of the New Testament.
And then he wheels back to Paul. The person he once was had become a monster to him, and he had become a monster to the person he once was. If the two could have met, the person he once was would have cursed him. Once contaminated, their only thought is to bite others in turn, in particular those who come at them with a stake to make good the promise they made to the person who no longer exists.
Rampant speculation, outrageous psychologizing, insouciantly unscholarly behavior—but diabolically plausible. We are hardly surprised when he adds what we have all been thinking: that he is really talking about himself. The first is epistemological, and has to do with the claim that Jesus is God made flesh, and that he died and rose again from the dead.
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