Table of Contents

Foreword by Mark A. Chancey
Preface to the Fortieth-Anniversary Edition
Preface to the 1977 Edition
Introduction
Part One: Palestinian Judaism
1. Tannaitic Literature
2. The Dead Sea Scrolls
3. Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
4. Palestinian Judaism 200 BCE–200 CE: Conclusion
Part Two: Paul
5. Paul
Conclusion
Bibliography

About the Author

E. P. Sanders is Arts and Sciences Professor of Religion Emeritus at Duke University and has taught at McMaster University and Queen's College, Oxford. His landmark works include, from Fortress Press, Comparing Judaism and Christianity (2016), Paul: The Apostle's Life, Letters, and Thought (2016), Judaism: Practice and Belief, 63 BCE-66 CE (2016; first published 1992), Jewish Law from Jesus to the Mishnah (2016; first published 1990), Jesus and Judaism (1985), and Paul, the Law, and the Jewish People (1983).