Peter and Paul are the two most famous and arguably most important of all Christian martyrs. No contemporary accounts of their deaths survive, so historians depend on later narratives for reconstructing the ends of the apostles lives. Traditionally, the Acts of Peter and Acts of…
Did Paul ever meet Jesus and hear him teach? A century ago, a curious assortment of scholars -- William Ramsay, Johannes Weiss, and James Hope Moulton - thought that he had. Since then, their idea has virtually disappeared from New Testament scholarship, to be revived in this mo…
