Paula Fredriksen, the Aurelio Professor of Scripture at Boston University, is the author of Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews, which won the 1999 National Jewish Book Award. She served as historical consultant and featured speaker on the PBS Frontline series “From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians.”
“Fredriksen has achieved a magisterial sketch of the evolution of
the images of Jesus with astonishing neatness and simplicity. . . .
A learned, brilliant and enjoyable study of the genesis of the New
Testament images of Jesus.”—Géza Vermès, Times Literary
Supplement
“A landmark book on Christianity.”—International Review of Biblical
Studies
“Fredriksen confronts her documents—principally the writings of the
New Testament—as an archaeologist would an especially rich complex
site. With great care she distinguishes the literary images from
historical fact. As she does so, she explains the images of Jesus
in terms of the strategies and purposes of the writers Paul,
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.”—Thomas D’Evelyn, Christian Science
Monitor
“I can tell you what I liked about it: its sense of scholarship and
a becoming intellectual modesty; its strong sensitivity to the
Jewish matrix out of which Jesus emerged; and the care with which
she made this work accessible to the general reader. She not only
writes well but supplies us with bibliographies, suggested
readings, indices of both the scriptures and of ancient sources in
addition to a thorough general index of names and subjects. It is
always a pleasure to open a book which keeps the reader’s needs so
firmly in mind.”—Lawrence S. Cunningham, Commonweal
“A more than usually competent and stimulating survey course
textbook. . . . The summary expositions of the New Testament texts
provide a fair and adequate summary of principal emphases in these
writings, with a good proportion of shrewd observation. . . .
Insightful and lively style. . . . This book provides a helpful
framework and should provoke a good deal of questioning and
discussion. And what more can we ask?”—James D. G. Dunn, Journal of
Theological Studies
“This extraordinarily well-written and exciting book is a
reconception of the causes and motivations operative in the early
Christian movement, a new rationale of the sequence of probable
events. It will be fascinating for all kinds of readers.”—Wayne
Meeks
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