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Paula Fredriksen

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#91

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#133

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PhD History Princeton University
Bachelors History Bryn Mawr College

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According to Wikipedia, Paula Fredriksen is an American historian and scholar of early Christianity. She held the position of William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of Scripture at Boston University from 1990 to 2010. Now emerita, she has been distinguished visiting professor in the Department of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, since 2009.

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PAUL AND AUGUSTINE: CONVERSION NARRATIVES, ORTHODOX TRADITIONS, AND THE RETROSPECTIVE SELF (1986) (119)
From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of the New Testament Images of Jesus (1990) (76)
Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews: A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity (1999) (65)
Excaecati Occulta Justitia Dei: Augustine on Jews and Judaism (2009) (62)
Judaism, the Circumcision of Gentiles, and Apocalyptic Hope: Another Look at Galatians 1 and 2 (1991) (51)
The Confessions as Autobiography (2012) (46)
When Christians Were Jews (2018) (32)
How Jewish Is God?: Divine Ethnicity in Paul's Theology (2018) (27)
Judaizing the Nations: The Ritual Demands of Paul's Gospel* (2010) (27)
Apocalypse and Redemption in Early Christianity From John of Patmos To Augustine of Hippo1 (1991) (27)
Mandatory retirement: Ideas in the study of Christian origins whose time has come to go (2006) (22)
The Religion of Jesus the Jew (1993) (16)
Beyond the body/soul dichotomy. Augustine on Paul against the Manichees and the Pelagians (1988) (14)
Christian anti-Judaism: polemics and policies (2006) (13)
Christians in the Roman Empire in the First Three Centuries CE (2007) (13)
When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation (2018) (12)
From Jesus to Christ (1988) (12)
What You See is What You Get: Context and Content in Current Research on the Historical Jesus (1995) (11)
Sin: The Early History of an Idea (2012) (7)
The Two Souls and the Divided Will (1998) (6)
Paul: The Pagans' Apostle (2017) (6)
Why Should a “Law-Free” Mission Mean a “Law-Free” Apostle? (2015) (6)
The First Christian Theologians: an Introduction to Theology in the Early Church (2004) (6)
How Later Contexts Affect Pauline Content, or: Retrospect is the Mother of Anachronism (2014) (5)
Hysteria and the Gnostic Myths of Creation (1979) (5)
1 The Birth of Christianity and the Origins of Christian Anti-Judaism (2007) (5)
Arms and The Man: A Response to Dale Martin’s ‘Jesus in Jerusalem: Armed and Not Dangerous’ (2015) (5)
Sunday, 26 August 2012 (2012) (5)
Augustine's early interpretation of Paul (1979) (4)
6. Allegory and Reading God's Book: Paul and Augustine on the Destiny of Israel (2000) (4)
Augustine and the Jews (2008) (3)
TORAH-OBSERVANCE AND CHRISTIANITY: THE PERSPECTIVE OF ROMAN ANTIQUITY (1995) (3)
The Question of Worship:: Gods, Pagans, and the Redemption of Israel (2015) (3)
Augustine and World Religions (2008) (2)
Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity (review) (2004) (2)
Anti-Judaism and Anti-Semitism (2009) (2)
Jewish Romans, Christian Romans, and the Post-Roman West: The Social Correlates of the contra Iudaeos Tradition (2014) (2)
Christian Theology and Judaism (2004) (2)
Why was Jesus Crucified, but his Followers were not? (2007) (1)
Chapter 13. Roman Christianity and the Post- Roman West: The Social Correlates of the Contra Iudaeos Tradition (2014) (1)
Book Review:Jewish Law in Gentile Churches: Halakhah and the Beginning of Christian Public Ethics Marcus Bockmuehl (2003) (1)
Jesus the Jewish Christ (2012) (1)
Words about Recommended Books on Jewish-Christian Dialogue: The Historical Figure of Jesus (2006) (1)
Philo, Herod, Paul, and the Many Gods of Ancient Jewish “Monotheism” (2022) (1)
Paul and the Mosaic Law: The Third Durham—Tübingen Research Symposium on Earliest Christianity and Judaism (1997) (1)
Augustine on Jesus the Jew (2011) (1)
On the Physical Death of Jesus Christ (1986) (1)
Christianity and Roman Society (review) (2006) (1)
Divinity, Ethnicity, Identity: “Religion” as a Political Category in Christian Antiquity (2021) (1)
Judeophobia: Attitudes toward the Jews in the Ancient World . By Peter Shäfer. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997. xii + 306 pp. $35.00 cloth. (1998) (0)
AGAINST THE MANICHAEAN MOSES: (2019) (0)
Chapter 2. Flesh and the Devil: Sin in the Second Century (2012) (0)
2. FATHERLAND AND MOTHER CITY (2018) (0)
Chapter 3. A Rivalry of Genius: Sin and Its Consequences in Origen and Augustine (2012) (0)
Paul, Pagans and Eschatological Ethnicities: A Response to Denys McDonald (2022) (0)
Christ and the Kingdom (2018) (0)
THE LESTER AND SALLY ENTIN FACULTY OF HUMANITIES THE CHAIM ROSENBERG SCHOOL OF JEWISH STUDIES AND ARCHAEOLOGY Paul’s Interpretation of Scripture and the (Pre-)History of Midrash THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (2019) (0)
HOW DO THE NATIONS RELATE TO ISRAEL? (2019) (0)
Israel and the Nations (2018) (0)
Book Review: Paul's Gospel in an Intercultural Context: Jew and Gentile in the Letter to the Romans (1993) (0)
The message and the messenger (2018) (0)
Paul—Apostle to the Pagans: A Response to Paul Foster (2021) (0)
Al Tirah (“Fear Not!”): Jewish Apocalyptic Eschatology, from Schweitzer to Allison, and After (2020) (0)
! ! ! ! ! Lawful ! Sexuality ! Re / Evaluating ! the ! Rhetorical ! Methods ! and ! Aims ! of ! 1 ! (2017) (0)
Chapter 1. God, Blood, and the Temple: Jesus and Paul on Sin (2012) (0)
Response to Reviews (2009) (0)
When Words Hurt: The Gospel Of John, Bach's Music And Religious Intolerance (2001) (0)
Eyal Regev. The Temple in Early Christianity: Experiencing the Sacred. The Yale Anchor Bible Reference Library. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019. xiii + 480 pp. (2021) (0)
Jesper Svartvik: Mark and Mission. Mk 7:1–23 in Its Narrative and Historical Contexts (2001) (0)
Paul the ‘Convert’? (2014) (0)
History, Hollywood, and the Bible: Some Thoughts on Gibson's Passion (2016) (0)
Eric, Plumer, trans.Augustine’s Commentary on Galatians. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. xvii+294 pp. $70.00 (cloth). (2004) (0)
3. PAUL: MISSION AND PERSECUTION (2018) (0)
KATELLBERTHELOT : Jews and their Roman Rivals. Pagan Rome's Challenge to Israel. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021; pp. xxi + 519. (2022) (0)
Jesus, the Gospels, and the Galilean Crisis, by Tucker Ferda (2022) (0)
Befriending the Beloved Disciple: A Jewish Reading of the Gospel of John. By Reinhartz Adele. New York: Continuum, 2001. 206 pages. $24.95 (paper). (2002) (0)
Part One: Just Like Everyone Else, Only More So (2005) (0)
Pier Franco Beatrice: The Transmission of Sin. Augustine and the Pre-Augustinian Sources (2015) (0)
J. DOODY, K. KLOOS and K. PAFFENROTH (EDS), AUGUSTINE AND APOCALYPTIC (Augustine in Conversation: tradition and innovation). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014. Pp. x + 258.isbn 9780739189221. £57.95/US$90.00. (2016) (0)
Include Me Out: Tertullian, the Rabbis, and the Graeco-Roman City (2015) (0)
Augustine, Confessions. James J. O'Donnell (1994) (0)
4. The Holy City in Christian Thought (1996) (0)
Who Was Paul? (2020) (0)
Paul’s Letter to the Romans, the Ten Commandments, and Pagan “Justification by Faith”: For Alan Segal ז״ל (2014) (0)
" Go , show yourself to the priest , and offer for your cleansing what (2004) (0)
Augustine: Christian Truth and Fractured Humanity. Carol Harrison (2002) (0)
Can We Trust the Bible on the Historical Jesus? By Bart D. Ehrman, Craig A. Evans, and Robert B. Stewart. Louisville, KY: John Westminster John Knox Press, 2020. xii + 100 pp. $25.00 paper. (2022) (0)
The Immerser: John the Baptist within Second Temple Judaism (1999) (0)
The Offering of the Nations: Paul on Eschatological Fraternity (2022) (0)
How High Can Early High Christology Be? (2020) (0)
Book Review:A Noble Death: Suicide and Martyrdom among Christians and Jews in Antiquity Arthur J. Droge, James D. Tabor (1993) (0)
Bostonia: 1999-2000, no. 1-4 (1999) (0)
4. PAUL AND THE LAW (2018) (0)
Cornelis Bennema. Mimesis in the Johannine Literature: A Study in Johannine Ethics (2019) (0)
world, concentrating again on Jewish interaction with the nations both in the diaspora and in the land of Israel. The third chapter hones in on the early Jewish Jesus-movement and the birth of its mission among the pagans (2018) (0)
James J. O'Donnell: Augustine. A New Biography (2005) (0)
Violent Words, Violent Ways : Brent Shaw on Catholics, Donatists, and Jews in Late Roman North Africa (2013) (0)
Krister Among the Jews and Gentiles: Essays in Appreciation of the Life and Work of Krister Stendahl (2018) (0)
What Does It Mean to See Paul "within Judaism"? (2022) (0)

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