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Paula Fredriksen

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in Kingston, Rhode Island, The United States

January 06, 1951

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Paula Fredriksen, the Aurelio Professor of Scripture emerita at Boston University, since 2009 has been Distinguished Visiting Professor of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she also holds two honorary doctorates in theology and religious studies. She has published widely on the social and intellectual history of ancient Christianity, and on pagan-Jewish-Christian relations in the Roman Empire. Author of Augustine on Romans (1982) and From Jesus to Christ (1988; 2000), her Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews, won a 1999 National Jewish Book Award. More recently, she has explored the development of Christian anti-Judaism, and Augustine’s singular response to it, in ...more

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Average rating: 3.98 · 1,639 ratings · 248 reviews · 22 distinct works • Similar authors

	When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation 3.88 avg rating — 438 ratings — published 2018 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of the New Testament Images of Christ 4.02 avg rating — 354 ratings — published 1988 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years 4.19 avg rating — 227 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paul: The Pagans' Apostle really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 221 ratings — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews: A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity 4.02 avg rating — 200 ratings — published 1999 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sin: The Early History of an Idea 3.52 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 2012 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Augustine and the Jews: A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism 4.07 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jesus, Judaism, and Christian Anti-Judaism: Reading the New Testament after the Holocaust by Paula Fredriksen (Editor), Adele Reinhartz (Editor) 3.88 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jesus: "Who Do You Say That I Am?" 4.77 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On The Passion of the Christ: Exploring the Issues Raised by the Controversial Movie 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Martyrdom” in this view is not an event—the violent death of a Christian—but a form of discourse, a literary genre. These owed much to the depictions of violence against those Jews who resisted forced Hellenization during the Maccabean Revolt of the mid-second century BCE.”
― Paula Fredriksen, Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years

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“We have a better sense of how things worked if we imagine the Torah as widely dispersed sheet music: the notes were the notes, but Jews played a lot of improv.”
― Paula Fredriksen, When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation

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