Hi Monica. Hmm: I think your reconstruction would be difficult to substantiate against the standard account. Paul did not found some of the communities to whom he writes, e.g., Philippians and Romans. They were already functioning, as was Alexandria. Also, the problem disappears when one assumes he simply took for granted the Jesus tradition and focused on Jesus' death and resurrection (he also knows about the Jesus' Eucharist words). We do have the Letter of James, which dates ca 50, and it seems to reflect a very Jewish faith, with Jesus mentioned as only in the greeting of the first verse. The conflict between Paul and the Jerusalem "pillars' does not rely just on Acts, but on Galatians, and it played out until the Pseudo-Paul wrote Ephesians 2. But why dismiss oral traditions? Perhaps he was too busy drawing on Greek moralists, who already had cultural purchase, to simply repeat what everybody already knew? Still, there are too many holes to know how everything fits together.