High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pablo Christiani (or Paul Christian), a figure of the thirteenth century, was born to a pious Jewish family, with the name Saul. He became a Christian convert and Dominican friar.He was believed to have been a student of Rabbi Eliezer of Tarascon. He married a Jewish woman and had children with her. Later, he converted to Christianity and took his children from his wife and made them Christians. He then joined the Dominican Order. Prior to the 1263 Disputation of Barcelona, he was known for following Nicholas Donin's lead in attempting to ban the Talmud. His arguments centered on the "irrational" material within the text. His participation in the Disputation of Barcelona with Nahmanides was to try his new missionary technique to bring Jews to Christianity.