New novelist

Ken Schenck is writing a novel on Paul (here is an excerpt). Other scholars have tried on Paul and on Jesus. Why does one do it I wonder?

Never have I approached his subject (sex) from the angle he chose. But under the surface, the subject pervades my writing, story or blogs. (Click label 'story' at the left for some of my excerpts.) It pervades because of the realities of 'the facts of new life'. Ken has expressed both sides of the usual arguments - but is there a razor's edge that falls in neither camp but steers between both? I think there is and that it lies in the incomplete note by Paul in these early letters - 1 Corinthians 6:13 and 7:7 for examples. The knowledge that Paul has would have come to him according to the OT and its anointing message - confirming his revised understanding of Jesus. Colossians 2:11 is also relevant in its affirmation of circumcision as applied to the cross and thence to new birth and new life.

One has to ask why God chose circumcision of the male for the sign of the covenant with Abraham.