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  • Paul within Paganism

    Restoring the Mediterranean Context to the Apostle

    Edited by Alexander Chantziantoniou, Paula Fredriksen, Stephen L. Young ...
    A collaborative project, this work introduces a burgeoning new approach to the study of Paul, which contextualizes the pagans' apostle within the wider world of ancient Mediterranean religion (so-called "paganism"). The anthology assembles cutting-edge essays from both senior and rising scholars, whose contributions collectively demonstrate how Paul's Jewish religious program is native to the ... Read more

    $37.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ancient Christianities

    The First Five Hundred Years

    by Paula Fredriksen ...
    How, over the course of five centuries, one particular god and one particular Christianity came to dominate late Roman imperial politics and pietyThe ancient Mediterranean teemed with gods. For centuries, a practical religious pluralism prevailed. How, then, did one particular god come to dominate the politics and piety of the late Roman Empire? In Ancient Christianities, Paula Fredriksen traces ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • When Christians Were Jews

    The First Generation

    by Paula Fredriksen ...
    A compelling account of Christianity’s Jewish beginnings, from one of the world’s leading scholars of ancient religionHow did a group of charismatic, apocalyptic Jewish missionaries, working to prepare their world for the impending realization of God's promises to Israel, end up inaugurating a movement that would grow into the gentile church? Committed to Jesus’s prophecy—“The Kingdom of God is at ... Read more

    $19.79 USD

  • From Jesus to Christ

    The Origins of the New Testament Images of Jesus

    by Paula Fredriksen ...

    $12.99 USD

  • Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews

    A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity

    by Paula Fredriksen ...
    Paula Fredriksen, renowned historian and author of From Christ to Jesus, begins this inquiry into the historic Jesus with a fact that may be the only undisputed thing we know about him: his crucifixion.Rome reserved this means of execution particularly for political insurrectionists; and the Roman charge posted at the head of the cross indicted Jesus for claiming to be King of the Jews. To ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Paul

    The Pagan's Apostle

    by Paula Fredriksen ...
    A groundbreaking new portrait of the apostle Paul, from one of today’s leading historians of antiquityOften seen as the author of timeless Christian theology, Paul himself heatedly maintained that he lived and worked in history’s closing hours. His letters propel his readers into two ancient worlds, one Jewish, one pagan. The first was incandescent with apocalyptic hopes, expecting God through his ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Sin

    The Early History of an Idea

    by Paula Fredriksen ...
    Ancient Christians invoked sin to account for an astonishing range of things, from the death of God's son to the politics of the Roman Empire that worshipped him. In this book, award-winning historian of religion Paula Fredriksen tells the surprising story of early Christian concepts of sin, exploring the ways that sin came to shape ideas about God no less than about humanity.Long before ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

  • When Christians Were Jews

    The First Generation

    by Paula Fredriksen ...
    A compelling account of Christianity’s Jewish beginnings, from one of the world’s leading scholars of ancient religionHow did a group of charismatic, apocalyptic Jewish missionaries, working to prepare their world for the impending realization of God's promises to Israel, end up inaugurating a movement that would grow into the gentile church? Committed to Jesus’s prophecy—“The Kingdom of God is at ... Read more

    $26.19 USD

  • Negotiating Identities

    Conflict, Conversion, and Consolidation in Early Judaism and Christianity (200 BCE–600 CE)

    by Karin Hedner Zetterholm, Cecilia Wassén, Yonatan Adler, Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, Genevive Dibley, Christine Hayes, Jutta Jokiranta, Moshe Lavee0, Karin Neutel1, Rina Talgam2, John Van Maaren3, Holger Zellentin4, John J. Collins5, Anders Runesson7, Mark D. Nanos8, Matthew V. Novenson9, Samuel Byrskog0, Wally V. Cirafesi1, Adela Yarbro Collins2, Paula Fredriksen3, Adele Reinhartz4, Matthew Thiessen5 ...
    Series series Coniectanea Biblica
    Covering the period from 200 BCE to 600 CE, this book describes important aspects of identity formation processes within early Judaism and Christianity, and shows how negotiations involving issues of ethnicity, stereotyping, purity, commensality, and institution building contributed to the forming of group identities. Over time, some of these Jewish group identities evolved into non-Jewish ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Krister Among the Jews and Gentiles

    Essays in Appreciation of the Life and Work of Krister Stendahl

    Edited by Paula Fredriksen, Jesper Svartvik ...
    Essays on Krister Stendahl’s contributions in various arenas: institutional formation, both of university and of church; interreligious dialogue and relations; biblical and historical research. ... Read more

    $23.96 USD

  • Within Judaism? Interpretive Trajectories in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam from the First to the Twenty-First Century

    by Karin Hedner Zetterholm, Mohammed Ibraheem Ahmed, Elliot N. Dorff, Matthias Konradt, Ralph J. Korner, Grant Macaskill, Michele Murray, Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr, Adiel Schremer, Joshua Paul Smith0, John Van Maaren1, Holger Zellentin2, Magnus Zetterholm3, Isaac W. Oliver4, William S. Campbell5, Mark S. Kinzer6, Jennifer M. Rosner7, Anders Runesson9, Kathy Ehrensperger0, Mark D. Nanos1, Wally V. Cirafesi2, Philip A. Cunningham3, Neil Elliott4, Paula Fredriksen5, Adele Reinhartz6, Matthew Thiessen7 ...
    This book charts the shifting boundaries of Judaism from antiquity to the modern period in order to bring clarity to what scholars mean when they claim that ancient texts or groups are “within Judaism,” as well as exploring how rabbinic Jews, Christians, and Muslims have negotiated and renegotiated what Judaism is and is not in order to form their own identities. Belief in Jesus as the Messiah was ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • The Message of Paul the Apostle within Second Temple Judaism

    by Michael Bachmann, Daniel Boyarin, Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr, Shayna Sheinfeld, J. Brian Tucker, Isaac W. Oliver, František Ábel, William S. Campbell, Kathy Ehrensperger, Paula Fredriksen0, Jörg Frey1 ...
    Noting that a traditional understanding of Paul as “convert” from Judaism has fueled false and often dangerous stereotypes of Judaism, and that the so-called “new perspective on Paul” has not completely escaped these stereotypes, František Ábel has gathered leading international scholars to test the hypotheses of the more recent “Paul within Judaism” movement. Though hardly monolithic in their ... Read more

    $38.09 USD