extremely zealous for my ancestral traditions”14 Where did this “zeal” come from? What did it mean in practice? If this is what made the young Saul tick, what was the mechanism that kept that ticking clock running on time? And what did it mean, as he himself puts it in his first letter, to exchange this kind of “zeal” for a very different kind?15 Addressing those questions brings us to the real starting point of this book.
