War der Apostel Paulus ein römischer Bürger?

Paul and His Double Name: Relevance to the African Christian Pastor and Theologian Today

“…That makes Paul, therefore, a Jew in the diaspora, which actually his aforementioned emphasis on his Jewishness is also understood to indirectly betray (Murphy-O’Connor, 1996:32). By the first decade CE when he was possibly born (Fitzmyer, 1998:394), most Jews in the diaspora, just like those in Palestine (Ricciotti, 1953: 184), especially those who were Roman citizens as Paul, against suggestions to the contrary (Tarn, 1952:220-222; Stegemann, 1987; Lentz Jr, 1993:23-61), most probably was (Acts 16:37; 22:24-29; 23:27; van Minnen, 1994), had, right from infancy, two names (Von Loewenich, 1960:16). The first was usually a Greek or Roman name, - a reminder in the first instance of that person’s immediate Greco-Roman environment, but also possibly as an indication of a desire to assimilate (Sevenster, 1968:85).…”

The second imprisonment of Paul: Fiction or reality?

“…Although the accuracy of this claim is frequently defended, 51 there is reason to believe that it is part of Luke's literary construction. 52 The author of 2 Timothy does not appear to be aware that Paul is a Roman citizen, as he has him refer to being rescued from the lions. 53 Robert Jewett argues that Luke implies that Paul was executed following his imprisonment, and that none of the arguments to the effect that the ending of Acts suggests that Paul was released stand up to closer examination.…”

OFFERING THE GOSPEL ADAPANON : An interpretation and application of 1 Corinthians 9:18

“…Hock (1978:562) even viewed Paul as a descendant of the "provincial aristocracy". This view is, however, contested by scholars such as Stegemann (1987:200 229), and Engels (1990:114) who compares Paul's economic situation with Christ, in argu ing in his book ) that "Both Christ and Paul were work ingmen, a carpenter and a tentmaker, the kind of people numerous in the city." The notion that Paul was "only a cloth worker", but "possessed citizen ship of both Tarsus and Rome", leads Theissen (1982:32) to believe that Paul "enjoyed an unusual, privileged status".…”