Synopsis of Paul: A Would Be Apostle Christian anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism can be laid squarely at the feet of Paul the apostle. He was a hellenistic Jew and a mystic who never saw Jesus of Nazareth but, based on a life changing experience, a vision, he took it upon himself to reshape a tradition for which he had minimal sources and no direct experience. An early tradition says Paul was born in Gishala of Galilee but grew up in Tarsus of Cilicia. In Tarsus he would have been exposed to the Greek disciplines of the great university there, studied his scriptures as translated in the...