Krister Among the Jews and Gentiles

by Paula Fredriksen (Editor), Jesper Svartvik (Editor)

Professor of biblical studies and dean of Harvard Divinity School, bishop in his native Stockholm and pathbreaking participant in interreligious dialogue, scholar, and pastor: Krister Stendahl servedwith grace, humility, and humorin all these roles. 2018 marks ten years since his death. This book, in honor of his memory, provides its readers in seven succinct chapters with discussions, analyses, and appreciations of Stendahls contributions in various arenas: Institutional formation, both of university and of church; interreligious dialogue and relations; biblical and historical research. Its authors not only sketch the contours of Stendahls service and scholarship, but also reflect upon his legacy. How can Krister Stendahls insightsmoral, theological, historical, professionalguide us as we face the challenges of today?

224 pages, Paperback

Published November 6, 2018

About the author

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 Augustine and the Jews: A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism (2010); and has investigated the shifting conceptions of God and of humanity in Sin: The Early History of an Idea (2012). Her latest study, Paul: The Pagans’ Apostle (2017), places Paul’s Jewish messianic message to gentiles within the wider world of ancient Mediterranean culture.

Reviews

[Tim Shaw · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent anthology - essays that are FESTSCHRIFT appreciations of the polymath -seven succinct
chapters on modern NT and Jewish-Christian relations pioneer / administrator / bishop of Stockholm (1981 - 1988). Contains helpful index and full bibliography. This tribute to Krister Stendahl is a hopeful publication that will raise funds for a scholarship to the Swedish Theological Institute in Jerusalem. Very readable - it helps if you already know about his SCHOOL of ST. MATTHEW research and the INTROSPECTIVE CONSCIENCE of St. Paul / St. Augustine of Hippo thesis. deserves many readers 5* out of 5.