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How Stoicism and the philosophical center of Tarsus made Paul, Paul. Don't forget to subscribe and give us a review, it helps us out a ton!

What shaped and formed the apostle Paul and how the verdict was not in on Paul in his lifetime because he combined Jewish and pagan philosophical ideas in brand new ways. Fist bump Text and Rockers!! If you want to help the show, grab our new audio book HOUSE OF THE WORLD from the digital press. Heart, Swift-footed Markilles.

Here’s a short on how Paul and his Jesus communities fit and counterbalance other Judaisms of the First Century, and especially the community traditionally led by James the brother of Jesus in Jerusalem.

Mark and Eric talk about what made Paul so effective as the world's first church planter and journey with him to Athens to see his creative use of scripture and Greco-Roman literature.

Mark interviews long term friend and colleague Jason Myers, Professor of Bible at Greensboro in North Carolina. They chat about major shifts in reading Paul in scholarship over the last fifty years, surveying Sanders, Dunn, Wright, and others.

Mark interviews long term friend and colleague Jason Myers, (PhD. in New Testament, Professor at Greensboro College) on the world of Paul. They chat about the Mediterranean World and urban familiarity of the Apostle Paul and his modus operandi whenever coming to a new city to teach about Jesus.

Mark unpacks Paul's remarks to a younger pastor in 2 Timothy 2.16-17.

How Paul's darkest days are what made him full of compassion, and how the same can happen to you. Along the way we visit Dura Europos, one of the most important dig sites of early Christian studies, and discuss its implications for the first communities of Jesus followers.