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historical practice as a historian to not text--
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not take any of these texts as simple straightforward history.
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What I will argue, eventually, is that
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Paul is probably telling what is more accurately the case.
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Yes, he has a reason to stress it,
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but he says it so forcefully and he writes it in a letter,
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and if he had actually been in Jerusalem
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as much as Acts says,
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couldn't the people who received his letter have checked this out?
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Yeah.
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They could basically say later, no, Paul, in spite of saying
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that you do not lie, you're a liar.