Kirby's blog and sundry essays about early Christianity.
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Sid Green argues that the words in 2 Corinthians suggesting that Paul escaped from Damascus in Syria, allegedly under Nabataean rule, are later additions to the text. Read it now.
Peter Kirby presents dozens of outsider sources on formative Islam, based on Hoyland's book Seeing Islam as Other Saw It. The compilation should be helpful in reconstructing early Islamic history, the origins of the Qur'an, and the life of Muhammad. Read it now.
