Introduction

Peter Adamson talks to George Boy stones, professor of ancient philosophy at Durham University. Some people have detected parallels with or even influences from strands of the ancient philosophical tradition and books of the New Testament. But claims that Paul is a stoic seem to me to be quite implausible. The Monty Python view of Palestine as a sort of Jewish state under Roman occupation misses out the fact that it's culturally speaking, a very Hellenized country.