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Bio<\/h2>\n

Paula Fredriksen<\/strong>, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is Aurelio Professor of Scripture emerita at Boston University and Distinguished Visiting Professor emerita in the Department of Comparative Religions at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which awarded her an honorary doctorate in 2018. Educated at Wellesley College, Oxford University and Princeton University, she has published widely on the social and intellectual history of ancient Christianity, and on pagan-Jewish-Christian relations in the Roman Empire. Author of Augustine on Romans <\/em>(1982) and From Jesus to Christ <\/em>\u00a0<\/span>(1988; 2000), her Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews <\/em>won the 1999 National Jewish Book Award. More recently, she has explored the development of Christian anti-Judaism, and Augustine\u2019singular response to it, in Augustine and the Jews <\/em>\u00a0<\/span>(2010), and has investigated the shifting conceptions of God and of humanity in SIN: The Early History of an Idea <\/em>(2012). Paul: The Pagans\u2019 Apostle<\/em> (2017), won the 2018 Prose Award from the American Publishers\u2019 Association. Her most recent study, When Christians Were Jews<\/em> (2018), places the Jesus movement\u2019s Jewish messianic message within the wider world of ancient Mediterranean culture, politics, and power.<\/p>\n

Current CV<\/a><\/p>\n

Books<\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/a>When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation<\/span><\/em><\/a>
\nBy Paula Fredriksen
\nYale University Press
\nOctober 23, 2018
\nBuy it now from Amazon!<\/a><\/p>\n

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<\/em><\/a>\"Paul-<\/a>Paul: The Pagans\u2019 Apostle<\/a>
\n<\/em>By Paula Fredriksen
\nYale University Press
\nAugust 22, 2017
\nBuy it now from Amazon!<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"sin\"<\/a>Sin: The Early History of an Idea<\/a><\/em>
\nBy Paula Fredriksen
\nPrinceton University Press
\n2012
\nBuy it now from Amazon.com!<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Augustine<\/a>Augustine and the Jews<\/em><\/a>
\nBy Paula Fredriksen
\nYale University Press
\n2010
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\"On<\/a>On \u2018The Passion of the Christ\u2019: Exploring the Issues Raised by the Controversial Movie<\/a><\/em>
\nBy Paula Fredriksen
\nUniversity of California Press
\nFebruary 1, 2006
\nBuy it now from Amazon.com<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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<\/a>From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of the New Testament Images of Jesus (Yale Nota Bene)<\/em><\/a>
\nBy Paula Fredriksen
\nYale University Press; 2nd edition
\nNovember 1, 2000
\nBuy it now from Amazon.com<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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<\/a>Jesus, Judaism, and Christian Anti-Judaism: Reading the New Testament After the Holocaust<\/em><\/a>
\nBy Paula Fredriksen, Adele Reinhartz
\nWestminster John Knox Press; 1st edition
\nNovember 1, 2002
\nBuy it now from Amazon.com<\/a>!
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<\/a>Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews: A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity<\/em><\/a>
\nBy Paula Fredriksen
\nVintage Press
\nDecember 5, 2000
\nBuy it now from Amazon.com<\/a>!
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

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<\/a>Augustine on Romans<\/em><\/a>
\nBy Paula Fredriksen
\nChico: Scholars Press
\nNovember 1, 1982
\nBuy it now from Society of Biblical Literature<\/a><\/p>\n

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<\/a>Courses<\/h2>\n