Professor Ehrman teaches Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of MISQUOTING JESUS and HOW JESUS BECAME GOD, both NY Times best sellers. Ehrman's most recent book is THE TRIUMPH OF CHRISTIANITY, which discusses the long period in Christianity's history between the conversion of Paul (some time before AD 36) and the conversion of the Emperor Constantine in AD 312. Here are two brief paragraphs from Ehrman's discussion of Paul's post-conversion missionary activity. It is difficult to know for certain how Paul conducted his mission on the ground. He was moving to cities that, so far as we can tell, he had never visited before, and trying to convert strangers to the faith. He apparently succeeded a good deal. But how did he do it? We should not think that Paul staged 'tent revivals' like a traveling American evangelist in the nineteenth or twentieth century. There is no reference to any such undertaking...