{"product_id":"the-amazing-colossal-apostle-the-search-for-the-historical-paul-volume-1-9781560852162","title":"The Amazing Colossal Apostle: The Search for the Historical Paul Volume 1","description":"The story of Paul is one of irony, the New Testament depicting him at the martyrdom of Stephen holding the assassins' cloaks. Then this same Paul is transformed into the biblical archetype for someone suffering for their faith. He becomes so entrenched, it would appear that he had walked with the Christians all his life, that he was the one who defined the faith, eventually being called the \"second founder of Christianity.\" But much of what we think we \"know\" about Paul comes from Sunday school stories we heard as children. The stories were didactic tales meant to keep us reverent and obedient. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs adults reading the New Testament, we catch glimpses of a very different kind of disciple--a wild ascetic whom Tertullian dubbed \"the second apostle of Marcion and the apostle of the heretics.\" What does scholarship tell us about the enigmatic thirteenth apostle who looms larger than life in the New Testament? The epistles give evidence of having been written at the end of the first century or early in the second--too late to have been Paul's actual writings. So who wrote (and rewrote) them? F. C. Baur, a nineteenth-century theologian, pointed persuasively to Simon Magus as the secret identity of \"Paul.\" Robert M. Price, in this exciting journey of discovery, gives readers the background for a story we thought we knew.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Signature Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/03\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781560852162\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 580\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.30d","brand":"Robert M. Price","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45316416569525,"sku":"9781560852162","price":24.61,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_b7d07cfd-c2c1-4695-9f25-9059d71ffa48.jpg?v=1745331027","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-amazing-colossal-apostle-the-search-for-the-historical-paul-volume-1-9781560852162","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}