Redefining First-Century Jewish and Christian Identities: Essays in Honor of Ed Parish Sanders (Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0268044538 ISBN 13: 9780268044534

Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008

Synopsis

For nearly four decades, E. P. Sanders has been the foremost scholar in shaping and refocusing scholarly debates in three different but related disciplines in New Testament studies: Second Temple Judaism, Jesus and the Gospels, and Pauline studies. This collection of essays by an impressive array of colleagues and former students presents original scholarship that extends―or departs from―the research of Sanders himself. Both apologists and dissenters find their place in this volume, as the authors actively debate Sanders’s innovative positions on central issues in all three disciplines. The introductory group of essays includes a substantive intellectual autobiography by E. P. Sanders himself. The next three parts examine in turn the three areas in which Sanders made his important contributions. The essays in part 2 engage Sanders's notion of “common Judaism.” Those in part 3 deal with issues that Sanders raised respecting the historical Jesus and the Gospels. And the essays in part 4 debate, among other issues, Sanders’s contention that participation in Christ, rather than justification by faith, is the central theme of Paul’s soteriology. The volume concludes with a bibliography of Sanders's works.

The introductory group of essays includes a substantive intellectual autobiography by E. P. Sanders himself. The next three parts examine in turn the three areas in which Sanders made his important contributions. The essays in part 2 engage Sanders's notion of “common Judaism.” Those in part 3 deal with issues that Sanders raised respecting the common Judaism. And the essays in part 4 debate, among other issues, Sanders’s contention that common Judaism.

Contributors: Fabian E. Udoh, D. Moody Smith, E. P. Sanders, Jouette M. Bassler, Shaye J.D. Cohen, Albert I. Baumgarten, Cynthia M. Baker, Israel J. Yuval, Martin Goodman, Eric M. Meyers, Jürgen Zangenberg, Seán Freyne, Peter Richardson, Adele Reinhartz, Paula Fredriksen, Stephen Hultgren, John P. Meier, Craig C. Hill, Heikki Räisänen, Richard B. Hays, Stanley K. Stowers, John M. G. Barclay.

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About the Author

Fabian E. Udoh is associate professor in the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is author of To Caesar What is Caesar’s: Tribute, Taxes, and Imperial Administration in Early Roman Palestine (63 B.C.E.–70 C.E.).

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0268044538
• ISBN 13: 9780268044534
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 442
• Editor: Udoh Fabian E.