How old was Paul when he first met Jesus (and/or converted)?

JoshInRI said:

Anyone venturing a specific age yet please?

Hi JoshInRl Here's what I found...

I didn't find much of anything.

"If we keep in mind the endowments of Paul, his age (at least thirty at the time of his conversion), the thoroughness of his Jewish training, his associates, his prospects, the social position which as a Christian he forfeited, we can see at once that he would not change his belief as “a Pharisee of the Pharisees,” or his attitude with reference to Jesus, save for reasons which to him were irresistibly convincing. In accepting Jesus as the Messiah, apparently he had everything to lose. Were the claims of Jesus grounded in fact, then neither he nor any other reasonable man could hesitate to admit them. That Paul did admit them, and defend them, is evidence that he held them to be both reasonable and true. That he risked his life and endured constant hardships for a generation without wavering, in their proclamation and in their defense, is proof of his opinion of the man whom his brethren as to the flesh put to death. Furthermore, he speaks on all occasions from personal experience, as one who knows, as one who has made trial of Christ and his salvation. He has seen the Lord. He has recognized him as his Lord. From him he has learned what the gospel is. He has found it to be, what its author declared it to be, power, peace, assurance of eternal life."

Edward F. Williams, “Is Paul a Competent Witness?,” Bibliotheca Sacra 56, no. 224 (1899): 664–665.

JoshInRI said:

For the edification of us all, pls share your results and how easy it was for you to find them within Logos.  
33 AD minus 6 AD work for anyone out there?

I don't think I'd search sort of info. Here's what I did instead:

• Filtered my library using subject:paul subject:biography, to make sure that syntax gave me biographies of Paul. It did.
• Using a Quick Collection, searched those books for various words that I hope might get me the information I need: chronology, timeline, born, aged, "years old", birth etc.

That didn't yield very much, but it did get me:

The exact year of Paul’s birth is unknown; it was probably about the middle of the first decade CE. In Philem. 9 (written ca. 62 CE) he describes himself as πρεσβύτης (an old man), at which time he would have been about fifty-five years old.

Search for <Phlm 9> didn't get me any further.

I then tried conversion NEAR year in the same collection which yielded:

“The journey was at all times dangerous for travellers without armed escorts, and in A.D. 37, the most probable year of Paul’s conversion, a war between King Aretas and the Romans was in progress, which fact would have made such a journey doubtful” (Wuest).

and

Paul, a Jew by birth and upbringing, spread the gospel of Christ in the Gentile world from Syria to Italy, if not indeed to Spain, during the thirty years or so which followed his conversion to Christianity about A.D. 33.

and

As the following discussion will demonstrate, we can more profitably distinguish fifteen phases or locations of Paul’s missionary work in the thirty-five years between his conversion in A.D. 31/32 on the road to Damascus and his death in Rome around A.D. 67.

Joshin talking about Logos for Dummies...in the Case of this Question I would run a Passage Guide on Act 9:1-11 first to see if some of the Commentaries give an answer to this Question.