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.).
“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
“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
“The 21 essays originated as papers presented at an April 2003
conference at the University of Notre Dame, which focused on the
principal themes of Sanders’ work: Judaism, Jesus and the Gospels,
and Paul. Among the topics are the problem of self-definition,
common Judaism in Greek and Latin authors, historiography for an
age of destruction, the place of the Sadducees in first-century
Judaism, Jesus in Jewish Galilee, Hellenism and the high priesthood
in life-of-Jesus narratives, the incident at the temple as the
occasion for Jesus’ death, the source of Paul’s problem in Judaism,
Pauline soteriology, and grace and the transformation of agency in
Christ.” —Research Book News
“ . . . 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 Jesus’ missions in the Galilee region and
his activities in Jerusalem.” —Journal of Ecumenical Studies
“No contemporary New Testament scholar’s work is more important
than the work of Sanders. No scholar of ancient Judaism or of early
Christianity can afford to overlook this volume. Each of the
contributors is a distinguished scholar in his or her own right and
the contributions offer generally appreciative, but always
stimulating, dialogue with Sanders’s seminal ideas. Every
theological library should have a copy of this work.” —Religious
Studies Review
“Some of the papers from a 2003 conference in honour of E. P.
Sanders form this fine Festschrift. It is organized around the
three foci of Sanders’s achievement. . . . Professor Sanders might
justifiably view with satisfaction the way his research has
stimulated further theological reflection on scripture as well as
hugely advancing the study of early Judaism, including Jesus and
Paul.” —Journal of Theological Studies
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