Talk:Road to Damascus

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 * I have gone through and attempted a cleanup. There were many bio details properly belonging in the Paul of Tarsus article that I have removed.  I have also attempted to fix the excessive internal redlinking and the commentary.  This article should describe the incident itself with minimum background and leave the tangential details to linked articles. There still needs to be some more work done to smooth it out so I have updated the cleanup tag, but not removed it.  - BanyanTree 04:18, 10 January 2006 (UTC)


 * For starters, there are three versions of the story, found in Acts 9, 22 and 26, and not completely identical. This needs to be addressed. Also the story should be summarized without the need to completely quote the text - this article shouldn't just be a quote of a portion of the Bible.

Also, the common notion that Saul after conversion took the name of Paul is false. He seems to have used both names, Saul was the standard transliteration of the Biblical name into Greek, as used in the Septuagint, however he also used Paul which seems to be an invention of his as use as a first name, see Paul_of_Tarsus.

It has been suggested that the Damascus that Paul was traveling to was not the Damascus of Syria, but the area of Qumran near the Dead Sea which the community there called Damascus. See the "Damascus Document" found in Cairo or the fragments found in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

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