A Brief Biographical Overview of Paul and His Letters

This chapter will attempt to construct a brief biographical overview of paul and his life, synthesizing information from the book of acts and from paul's own letters. While it may be close to impossible to retrieve the historical from the pages of the new testament, this chapter will attempts to construct a Brief Biography of Paul. We can actually look at a text and we have someone describing how they react to something, how they fiel about something. A we get paul's emotions that come through in his letters. He's angry, he's sad, he cries, he yells, he swears, he makes dirty jokes. On one occasion in galatians. You know,