Who is Paul from Who Wrote the New Testament?: The Making of the Christian Myth and what is their importance?

Paul authored several of the books included in the New Testament. He was an educated Jew, and a conservative Pharisee, who once persecuted Christians but later converted and joined them. He was one of the strongest voices in early Christianity, and his writings are mostly in the form of letters written to Christian congregations dispersed across the Mediterranean and Near East. In them, he seeks to clarify questions about proper observances and establish the Christian relationship to the Jewish codes.