What Was Paul Doing in “Arabia”?

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About Paul’s missionary journeys to the west much has been written. But almost nothing has been said of his trip to Arabia. No wonder; it is barely mentioned, almost as an aside, in Galatians 1:17: “I went away into Arabia, and again I returned to Damascus.”

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Endnotes

Most recently M.-F. Baslez, Saint Paul (Paris: Fayard, 1991) p. 101; R. N. Longenecker, Galatians (WBC 41; Dallas: Word, 1990) p. 34.

See F. F. Bruce, Paul: Apostle of the Free Spirit (Exeter: Paternoster, 1977), p. 81–82; Betz, Galatians, p. 74; S. Legasse, Paul apotre: Essai de biographie critique (Paris: Cerf/Fides, 1991), p. 72.