“Through 'The Oldest Midrash' Can We Prove that the Apostle Paul Went to Mount Sinai?”, by Dr. John David Pritcher, Jr, MD

Tradition (1) has it that the Apostle Paul went to Mount Sinai like Moses and Elijah (1 Kings 19:5-13 just before he anointed Elisha with his sheepskin mantle; see footnote 2 regarding that mantle) before him. Is it true and can we prove it through the Apostle Paul’s Midrash that is present in six of his New Testament letters?

In a word the answer is “Yes!” but let me set it up for you. Perhaps no account is more well-known than his conversion. I’ve enclosed a chalk drawing and initial B/W sketch from my late friend L. Henry (Hank) Jones depicting that event on The Road to Damascus.

We know more about the Apostle Paul than any other writer of the Midrashim. He wrote 14 of the 27 books of the New Testament but much of what we know about him come from Luke the physician’s account in the New Testament book of Acts. The first account of his conversion is in Acts 9 after which he was healed of blindness through Hananiah (Ananias) and afterwards proclaimed Yeshua (Jesus) the Messiah, the Son …