Fredriksen is Aurelio Professor of Scripture emerita at Boston University and a member of the Humanities Faculty of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. She has published extensively in the field of historical Jesus research, and her works include From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of the New Testament Images of Jesus, Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews: A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity, and Jesus, Judaism, and Christian Anti-Judaism: Reading the New Testament after the Holocaust.
Fredriksen’s goal in Paul is to situate the apostle firmly in his historical Greek, Roman, and especially Jewish context. The Paul of too much modern NT scholarship has been wrongly “de-Judaized,” as though the charge brought against Paul by Jewish opponents in Acts 21:21 (which Paul and Luke deny: Acts 21:24, 28–29; 25:8) were true. This portrait of Paul forgets that all of his extant letters were addressed to...
