Paula Fredriksen, Aurelio Professor of Scripture emerita at Boston University, is Distinguished Visiting Professor of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
“[Fredriksen’s] grasp of the material, canonical and
extra-canonical, is enviable and she writes with an elegance and
clarity which makes this a gripping read.”—John Harrod, Methodist
Recorder
“Paula Fredriksen is one of a number of Jewish scholars who have
shed new light on the origins of Christianity”—Paul Richardson,
Church of England Newspaper
“Paula Fredriksen has given us a wonderful introduction to the
first generation of the Jewish movement that later came to be known
as Christianity” —Mark D. Nanos, The Journal of Theological
Studies
“The questions raised in this well-written book are simultaneously
creative and well-founded.”—Andrew J. Byers, Journal for the Study
of the New Testament
“This remains the most important, exciting, and enjoyable book in
the field I have read for some time...Only a lifetime of immersion
in the materials and reflection on their most difficult problems,
combined with the capacity and confidence to write with such a
light and effortless touch, could produce a work that remains
readable as it picks a novel path through such complex and
much-masticated material.”—James Corke-Webster, Greece & Rome
“A scintillating, original, and brilliantly concise
synthesis.”—Jack Miles, author of God: A Biography
“A characteristically lucid, focused and beautifully-written
argument. Fredriksen sits the early Christian movement firmly
within Judaism, revealing it as radically eschatological,
variegated, evolving—and far less critical of ancestral customs and
norms than is traditionally imagined.”—Joan E. Taylor, author
of What Did Jesus Look Like?
“Engaging, provocative, and admirably lucid, this account of the
Jewish origins of earliest Christianity will force readers at all
levels to reconsider their assumptions and rethink their
views.”—Bart D. Ehrman, author of Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the
New Millennium
“Eloquent, informed, and provocative, this book offers a necessary
corrective to a number of prevailing views of Jesus, Paul, and the
Gospel writers. Paula Fredriksen advances the studies of both
Judaism and Christianity.”—Amy-Jill Levine, author of Short
Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial
Rabbi
“Paula Fredriksen tells with brio the gripping story of the early
Jewish followers of Jesus and their expectations of the
end. She traces with empathy and scholarly
precision their changing perspectives as events unfolded
in ways unanticipated.”—Martin Goodman, author of A History of
Judaism
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