From David Ashton
Discussing Fyodor Dostoevsky’s epilepsy, Anil Ananthaswamy asks if mystics through the ages had comparable “ecstasies” (25 January, p 44).
Seven decades ago, historian Joseph Klausner’s book From Jesus to Paul outlined reasons for thinking that St Paul had epileptic seizures. In 1987, David Landsborough developed this diagnosis in the , and in 2003 the idea caused “offence” when voiced during a BBC1 documentary on the origins of Christianity.
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