Based on Josephus, it seems like James may have been something of a public figure.

it’s hard to see illiterate fishermen being fluent in Greek.

I thought we’d had to revise our thinking on that (after, for example, the excavations at Sepphoris). I’d thought the emerging consensus was that a lot of backwater Galileans probably were conversational in street Greek because they lived in (or near) a Hellenized world.

Well, it would cast the dynamic between James, Peter, and Paul in a new light if they were working through a significant language barrier–either working through interpreters of unknown competence or struggling to iron out an agreement in a language one of them didn’t know very well.

You would only expect to find Aramaisms if Aramaic was his native tongue. If he learned it as a second language, it is unlikely to corrupt his Greek; likewise if he just learned Greek really well (just looking around today, I can think of people who learn a second language well enough that they don’t betray their mother tongue with their idiom or constructions; even if they still have an accent, that doesn’t of course come out in writing).

The way that I read, Galatians 1:1-2 doesn’t even really mean anything. It could be saying that Paul had raised whoever from dead or that Jesus Christ had raised Paul from the dead, or that God the Father had raised Jesus Christ from the dead, God has raised them all and the Church from the dead.

Paul, (an apostle, not of the human race, nor by human authority.) Resurrection of the dead is God. The gospel of Jesus Christ is not of human origin.

3 years of felonies and murders. Paul was in Arabia telling them about Jesus Christ but Allah too.

Ok,

@Robert

I think the first two verses are clue about what happened in verse 18. Paul spent three years writing books about the resurrection of the dead and the Lord Jesus Christ Church, then he met with Peter and James to make a peace treaty with them in Jerusalem.

Peace treaty. Like a bunch of college guys getting ready for a football game. They’re getting ready for the resurrection of the dead.

Similar to, the athlete has to believe they can win the game before playing it for real.

Saul of the Tarsus the Pharisee hired by the Sanhedrin to arrest, kill, and eradicate the original Jesus messiah group did his job for three years, wrote a lot of books, then tricked them all with a peace treaty, and his books became the religion of Christianity. He abolished all their first century books after their peace treaty replaced it all with his to rewrote the history and theology. Instead of killing all of them himself, he erased their words from history. Marcion and the opposing Apostolic groups had nothing left of the original Apostles during the second century after 70AD, and they wrote their own stories to make sense of the mystery “what happened before the 70AD war at Jerusalem.”

Paul’s meeting here in Galatians is a big con artist job to betray them all eventually.