PAUL. Neither Friend. Nor enemy.
Thirteen books in this series were about Radomir and the people who stood beside him. The brother who knew him from childhood. Cephas, who walked with him for years. The women who didn't run from the stake when everyone else did. The witness John, who got exile and an island for his trouble.
Half of the New Testament was written by a man who never met Radomir. Never walked with him. Never heard him speak. Never stood at the stake. He appeared afterward, with a story about a voice from the sky that no one else heard. And he received what none of the others did: a basilica the size of a city, a title that entered every language on earth.
That doesn't happen by accident. Losing things happens by accident. This - is a choice.
The investigation works from documents, not tradition. First, Paul's own letters - the rare case of a defendant leaving his own testimony that no one disputes the authorship of. He swears to his lineage three separate times, under oath, in detail - and never once names his birthplace. Then a book written about him a generation later by an anonymous author. Then the dossier kept by the opposing side - the community he fought against, preserved by an enemy specifically in order to refute it.
The tribe of Benjamin: "a ravenous wolf," in Jacob's blessing. Tertullian applies that verse to Paul word for word. The match is total - and that is exactly what makes it suspicious.
Who he was. Where he came from. Who gave him the floor.
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