How this contrarian apostle accidentally founded a world religion

About the tragic life and the miraculous survival of Paulos of Tarsos, the orphaned Jesus community in Jerusalem, the mission in the pagan West and the irrelevance of the Jewish Law.

There they were, the followers of Jesus. The charismatic leader was dead, executed. The kingdom of God could come at any moment, but what does one do in the meantime?

They must have been less than a thousand, the Jewish followers of Jesus. Most of them were in Jerusalem, and presumably some in Galilee. Jesus had twelve assistants around him, including Pe…