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1 author picked Paul as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This is another big book that my autistic grandson read aloud to me, with enthusiasm, when he was still in his teens.

It is St Paul’s acclaimed biography “by his greatest living interpreter” (so says historian Tom Holland, the author of Dominion). It is a gripping adventure story, following Paul from Tarsus to Rome (“Three times I have been beaten with rods, once I was stoned; three times I have been shipwrecked, a night and a day I have been adrift at sea”) as well as a journey into Paul’s mind and heart.

I loved the scholarship, the narrative…

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