Tarsian citizenship, of his education under Gamaliel, and of his pre-Christian Jerusalem studies as “Lukan upgrading of Paul’s status.”66 Acts’ insertion of a blinding light into its account of Paul’s Damascus Road experience “is a superb example of Luke’s literary imagination.”67 Crossan and Reed “imagine instead a vision in which Paul both sees and hears Jesus as the resurrected Christ, the risen Lord.”68 For Crossan and Reed, not only the events of Paul’s life in Acts are suspect; more importantly,