Operation Messiah: St Paul, Roman Intelligence and the Birth of Christianity
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (582 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0853037027 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 284 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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How did he come to work for the Temple authorities who collaborated with the Romans? How was he able to escape from legal situations in which others would have been killed? Why were so many Jews trying to have Paul killed and to which sect did they belong? These and other mysteries will be solved as the authors follow Paul's career and his connections to Roman intelligence.. It was Paul who wrote a large part of the New Testament, and who called it euangelion, "the gospel". There is another side of Paul, however, that has been little studied and that is his connection to the Roman military establishment and its intelligence arm. This man, later known as St. While other scholars and writers have suggested the idea that Paul was cooperating with the Romans, this is the first book-length study to document it in detail. By looking at the traditional story through a new lens, some of the thorniest questions and contradictions in Paul's life can be unravelled. Saul of Tarsus is one of the best known and most beloved figures of Christianity. Paul, set the tone for Christianity, inclu
Rose Mary Sheldon received her Ph.D. . in ancient history from the University of Michigan and is currently Head of the Department of History at the Virginia Military Institute. Col. Her special field is intelligence history and she is on the Editorial boards of the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, The Journal of Military History and Small Wars and Insurgencies, and has written more than three doz
in ancient history from the University of Michigan and is currently Head of the Department of History at the Virginia Military Institute. About the Author Col. Rose Mary Sheldon received her Ph.D. . Her special field is intelligence history and she is on the Editorial boards of the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, The Journal of Military History and Small Wars and Insurgencies, and has written more than three dozen articles on aspects of ancient intelligence. Her books include Espionage in the Ancient World: An Annotated Bibliography and Intelligence Activities in Ancient Rome: Trust in the Gods, But Verify
A Parable for Christianity Rogier F. van Vlissingen I am reading this book (in Dutch) as a parable for the birth of Christianity, which really is a wonderful explanation for what happened on the level of the mind as Jesus's teachings became corrupted into the dogma of the Church of Peter and Paul. Corrupted, because it . Must-read for ex-Christians Greg J. Lovern I was raised as a conservative Evangelical, and at age 17 my faith reached such a fever pitch that I read the New Testament four times through in a month. But that was the beginning of the end, because after that immersion in the teachings of Jesus and Paul, I could no. Pauline Reformation WilliamPugh Incredible read! It is in textbook format but very easily read as a novel. I am impressed at the humbleness and the lack of agenda in the information presented. Col. Sheldon simply presents the facts based her career as an Espionage expert, not a theologian. I was dumf