Carter,
You were writing about Paul some time ago. I tried to look up what all you said but can't figure out how to go back on your blog. But let me say at least this. As for Paul, he was an odd duck. When you think of a pharisee's pharisee (a nitpicker's nitpicker), the physical infirmity, the no-second-chance attitude, the self-proclaimed apostleship, leaving the comfort of Judaism to live only among Gentiles, extensive travel, the copious writing, surviving a shipwreck, a bachelor's life, imprisonment, and an unrecorded death. He wasn't your average first-century Joe.