School of St. Matthew & Its Use of the Old Testament

by Krister Stendahl

Hardcover, no dust jacket. Slightly worn laminated boards. Previous owner library sticker to front paste-down end page. This item is at our location in Eugene, Oregon.

249 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1991

About the author

Krister Stendahl was a Swedish theologian and New Testament scholar, Emeritus Bishop of Stockholm (Lutheran); Professor Emeritus, Harvard Divinity School. Stendahl is perhaps most famous for his publication of the article "The Apostle Paul and the Introspective Conscience of the West."

Stendahl received his doctorate in New Testament studies from Uppsala University with his dissertation The school of St. Matthew and its use of the Old Testament (1954). He was later Professor at the Divinity School at Harvard University, where he also served as dean, before being elected Bishop of Stockholm in 1984. Stendahl was the second director of the Center for Religious Pluralism at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. After retiring in 1989, he returned to the United States, and was Mellon Professor of Divinity Emeritus at the Harvard Divinity School. He also taught at Brandeis University. Bishop Stendahl was an honorary fellow of the Graduate Theological Foundation. (from Wikipedia)