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Paul, The Apostle - His Life and Times

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Boyd's book was an interesting book. I enjoyed his insight on the life of Paul. I did find one problem with his book. Towards the end, he starts using his imagination to fill in the blanks on Paul's life. He added an extra mission trip which the Bible does not include. Other than that I enjoyed the Book. I would recommend this book to any person that is interested in a detailed book on the life of Paul.

Boyd's got an obvious bias, which precludes his analysis of some interesting facets of Paul's life and teaching. Keep that in mind while you're reading. The text isn't stellar, but it's adequate. The illustrations in the book are almost maddening - rather than giving descriptive details or telling where the images came from, the "credit" is, "Provided by Robert T. Boyd." That's, frankly, annoying. If you're going to include illustrations they should be relevant to the text, and the caption should give some indication as to what they are and why they are included. I am a visual person - I admit it - I LIKE pictures in my books. I'm a journalist, too, and it's irritating to see someone stick pictures in a book just to fill up the pages. Leave the pictures out and save a tree or two. Which is why the book gets three stars from me.