"It would also help if they went to the original--where the rhetorical ploys and bits taken from other texts sort of leap out.
"Paul is a wanker, but he's a lot less stupid in Koine."
[In response to
feorag's
comment that, "You have to admit though, that the annoying
hate-filled proseletysing types find much of their material in the
words of Paul. Suspect none of them have actually read the words
attributed to that Jesus guy in Matt 6."]