Pauline Letters · Evidence-led guide
About Pauline Letters
Pauline Letters is one reader’s reconstruction of Paul’s life, built in the open, with the joins between evidence and inference left visible rather than sanded flat.
Reader question
Who made Pauline Letters, and what kind of authority does this independent project claim?
Created and edited by Thomas Diong
Pauline Letters is an independent educational project created and edited by Thomas Diong. It reads Acts and Paul’s own letters in the order the events happened, and offers that reading two ways: as a journey you walk across the Mediterranean, and as plain pages you can read at your own pace, check against the sources, quote in a lesson, or argue with.
The project does not claim institutional sponsorship or peer review. Its authority comes from transparent sources, explicit uncertainty labels, public revision dates, and a commitment not to present later tradition as though it were narrated in Scripture.
Common questions
Who made Pauline Letters?
Thomas Diong, as an independent educational project. It is one reader’s reconstruction of Paul’s life, created and edited by one person, with the sources, uncertainty labels, and revision dates published so the work can be checked rather than taken on authority.
Is Pauline Letters affiliated with a church or denomination?
No. The project claims no institutional sponsorship, denominational endorsement, or peer review. Where faithful readers genuinely divide — on dating, destinations, or disputed authorship — the pages present the text’s own words and name the division instead of settling it for the reader.
What sources does the project rely on?
Acts and Paul’s letters first, read in the order the events happened; then published ancient-world gazetteers for coordinates, dated inscriptions such as the Gallio inscription for chronology, manuscript evidence for the letters as artifacts, and named scholarship for contested questions. Later tradition is used and always labeled as tradition.
Can I use this site for teaching?
Yes. The plain pages are written to be quoted in lessons and checked against the sources, and the editorial text may be quoted with attribution and a link. The chronology and letter datasets are free to reuse, and the route map can be embedded in a class page — the licence page records the details.
Bibliography and sources
- Acts 7–28, World English Bible (public domain). View source
- Romans through Philemon, World English Bible (public domain). View source
- The project’s 67-row chronology, cross-referencing Acts and the letters and labeling debated dates.