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Saint Saul: A Skeleton Key to the Historical Jesus
ISBN: 9780773574472
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / McGill-Queen''s University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Jesus Christ -- Historicity; Paul the Apostle Saint;

In Saint Saul Donald Harman Akenson shows that the answer to the most persistent question in Christianity " What do we really know about the historical Jesus? " is found largely in the writings of an itinerant preacher named Saul. Saul, the author of the Epistles and better known to Christians as Saint Paul, is the closest thing we have to a direct witness. Akenson demonstrates that only through Saul do we have the opportunity to encounter Yeshua - as Jesus was known in his time - in something approaching the original.

Donald Harman Akenson is Douglas Professor of Canadian and Colonial History, Queen's University, the world's leading scholar on the Irish diaspora, and the author of several major works on the history of Judaism and Christianity.Donald Harman Akenson is Douglas Professor of Canadian and Colonial History at Queen's University.