How did Paul describe his own Jewish background in Romans?
In Romans, Paul identified himself as a Pharisee of the Pharisees and from the tribe of Benjamin. He called himself a good religious Pharisaical Jew, a description given by Holy Spirit inspiration, showing his strict Jewish heritage and religious standing.
Les explains that Saul of Tarsus, later known as the Apostle Paul, was not a casual onlooker at Stephen's stoning but the leader of the rebellion against Jesus. He was a good religious Pharisaical Jew, and he says it himself in Romans, describing himself as a Pharisee of the Pharisees, of the tribe of Benjamin. In Galatians, Paul also wrote of his past conversation in the Jews, which was religion, and how he persecuted the church of God beyond measure—the Jewish church at Jerusalem—by Holy Spirit inspiration.