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.

“This volume is a fitting tribute to the single most influential scholar in the fields of New Testament and early Judaism of the last half century. . . . A real strength of this volume is that most of the essays not only directly engage the work of Ed Parish Sanders but confirm, refine, and even extend various aspects of his innovative and widely debated positions on central issues in the study of Jesus, Paul, and Second Temple Judaism.” ―Daniel C. Harlow, Calvin College

“No scholar of our generation has done more to advance the study of the New Testament than E. P. Sanders, whose work has revolutionized our understanding of early Judaism, the historical Jesus, and the apostle Paul. These are three enormously significant areas of research; most good scholars need an entire career to master, let alone influence, any one of them. The present collection of essays by leading researchers of early Judaism and early Christianity―including an insightful intellectual autobiography by the great man himself―is a fitting tribute to the career and thought of a giant in the field.” ―Bart D. Ehrman, James A. Gray Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

“A celebratory testimonial to the far-ranging interests of the most influential intertestamental historian of our age, this stellar, seminal, stimulating compendium―one exciting essay on the heels of another―is a veritable ‘scholarly page-turner.’ Gloriously rich in content, provocatively diverse in perspective, and brilliant in categorization and sequence, this volume will be indispensable to all of E. P. Sanders' followers and reactors as well as to present and future newcomers to his distinctive contributions.” ―Michael J. Cook, Sol & Arlene Bronstein Professor of Judeo-Christian Studies, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion

"A celebratory testimonial to the far-ranging interests of the most influential intertestamental historian of our age, this stellar, seminal, stimulating compendium―one exciting essay on the heels of another―is a veritable 'scholarly page-turner.' Gloriously rich in content, provocatively diverse in perspective, and brilliant in categorization and sequence, this volume will be indispensable to all of E. P. Sanders' followers and reactors as well as to present and future newcomers to his distinctive contributions."―Michael J. Cook, Sol & Arlene Bronstein Professor of Judeo-Christian Studies, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion

About this title

About the Author:

Fabian E. Udoh is on the Faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University in Montreal. He is author of To Caesar What is Caesar's: Tribute, Taxes, and Imperial Administration in Early Roman Palestine.

Review:

"This volume is a tribute to Professor Ed Parish Sanders of Duke University, who is one of the foremost biblical scholars on the topic of the relationship of Judaism and early Christianity. A thread that binds together Sanders' work and is apparent in most of these essays is his fundamental contention that running through the midst of the cultural and theological diversity of first-century Judaism there was also a "common Judaism"expressed in some fundamental convictions and common practice."―The Bible Today

" . . . A gem of a volume and a fitting tribute to Sanders, the foremost scholar of Second Testament Studies. It contains informative and often controversial portraits of Jesus, first-century Judaism, and Pauline Christianity, as well as detailed information on JesusĘ missions in the Galilee region and his activities in Jerusalem."―Journal of Ecumenical Studies

About this edition

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