David J Trobisch

Paul of Damascus David J Trobisch

The story follows the last twelve months of Saint Paul's life, based on Paul's own account in his letters. Paul insists that he was never called Saul, that he was not from Tarsus but a respected business man from Damascus, and that he had not healed a single person in his life. To the contrary, he is sick himself. And although he had prayed for healing, all he received from Christ during a vision was the oracle: "My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in sickness." Paul wanted nothing more than to be accepted and loved, and to receive a new body when he passed from this world into the eternal presence of God.

Born in French-speaking Africa from a US-American mother and a German father, David Trobisch works as a scholar of New Testament literature all over the world.