Pauls education

[Montie_Claunch]

I have really always heard of Pauls increadable education. Apart from him know greek and Jewish law (which one would figure a good jew would know) what in scripture tells us of the level of Pauls education? Thanks and God Bless.

 

[YinYangMom]

Here’s a little something…

Do we know anything about Paul’s upbringing, his background? Traditionally Paul grew up as a Diaspora Jew. That is from a Jewish family, [with a] very traditional Jewish upbringing but living not in the homeland but rather in Tarsus, a city in Eastern Turkey. So he lives in a Greek city, itself, in fact, an interesting kind of crossroads on the frontier of the Middle East, and yet he also had a very traditional Jewish education. He was himself a Pharisee and trained as a Pharisee so he would have been conversant with the tradition of interpretation of the scriptures and indeed of the prophets themselves. When we hear Paul using prophetic language both as a way of framing his preaching message and also as a way of describing his own self-understanding, it is because he was steeped in that prophetic language from his own studies in the Jewish tradition.

And something else to further explore.

 

[anawim]

Montie Claunch:

I have really always heard of Pauls increadable education. Apart from him know greek and Jewish law (which one would figure a good jew would know) what in scripture tells us of the level of Pauls education? Thanks and God Bless.

It tells us in the book of Acts that he was a student of Gamaliel: “I am a Jew, born at Tarsus in Cili’cia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, educated according to the strict manner of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God as you all are this day” ~Acts 22:3

 

[NotWorthy]

It tells us in the book of Acts that he was a student of Gamaliel: “I am a Jew, born at Tarsus in Cili’cia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, educated according to the strict manner of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God as you all are this day” ~Acts 22:3

I’ve heard (maybe from extra-testamental writings) that Gamaliel was one of the finest teachers of his time and that Paul was considered one of his brightest pupils.