1b Paul the Jew

Paul the Jew

Paul is a Roman citizen – but he also, of course, inherited another very stratified and very strict tradition. He is a Jew: a Jew whose name was originally Saul, and who, he tells us, came initially from the tribe of Benjamin (Philippians 3.5). He belongs to that huge class of
Jewish entrepreneurs and traders, merchants, travellers and teachers called ‘the Diaspora’ – the Jewish people dispersed around the
Mediterranean in the centuries just before the beginning of the Christian era…