(September 12, 2017 at 3:14 pm)Minimalist Wrote: "Paul" ( Paulus or Paullus) was a Roman cognomen ( nickname - it means "small" ) and almost exclusively used by the patrician Aemillian clan. It seems unlikely that some smelly jew from Tarsus would have become a member of the Roman nobility.
Makes a good bookend of absurdity alongside people writing in Koine Greek about some Jewish chap in Roman-occupied territory.