Perhaps the most astounding notice in all extra-biblical literature is the one found in the Pseudoclementine Recognitions describing an actual physical assault by Paul on James on the Temple steps in Jerusalem. Nor should one fail to remark the absence of this attack from the parallel account known as the Pseudoclementine Homilies, which appears to refashion its narrative of early Christian history to expressly avoid mentioning it. The same is true, of course, of Acts where, as we already observed, the assault on the archetypal Gentile Christian believer Stephen, which introduces Paul and which Paul entirely approved of (8:1), replaces it. p. 32.
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