Paul's Writings Underpin Western Thought

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Jorm, some years ago I was participating in an email group and one of the moderators was Professor Niels Peter Lemche.  The discussion started out with something about the Sea People in the Levant and, as these things do, expanded all over the place from there.  At one point I mentioned something about King Josiah from Finkelstein's "The Bible Unearthed" and he replied that there was no archaeological or historical attestation for anyone named Josiah...which is true.  I replied that there was doubtless a king in Judah, everyone else at the time had a king and we had to call him something..."Hey You" didn't seem appropriate.  And he chopped me off at the knees.  The problem with using the convention of "Josiah" is that you get stuck with all the other baggage that is loaded on to him and there is no evidence for any of it.  Better to call the king of Judah the "King of Judah" as that does not get stuck with all the holy horseshit that he was saddled with in the OT.

So I don't agree with you.  When you use the convention "paul" you are automatically giving the xhristards the home field advantage.  And they don't deserve it.