one who "marketed" this value proposition and put Christianity on its path of explosive growth. So Jesus may have been an unwashed street preacher who had the personal misfortune of dying because he disrupted local governance, but Paul was the one who took the spin that emerged from Jesus' death and went big with it. I wonder more about what Paul was like... I think it would likely prove impossible to find him in the first place. Where and when are you going to look, and what are you looking for? An end of days preacher around say 20-30 CE roaming about Judea? Ha! Just turn the corner and you'll find two. We know that the little that is written about his life in the bible is either outright fabrication or unlikely to be accurate. Even if one of these preachers played the larges role in what eventually came to be the mythological Jesus of the bible, it might not be possible to single him out. Josephus describes a number of would be Messiahs who got themselves killed by the Romans. The passage where he appears to be describing Jesus is believed by practically all historians to be heavily forged, but many argue that it still has an authentic core. A 2nd Century Roman historian named Tacitus also says that the Christian religion (which he calls an "evil") was named after someone called "Christus" who was put to death by Pilate. Tacitus is mostly accepted as genuine, but he could