Paula Fredriksen

Paula Fredriksen

Author and Aurelio Professor of Scripture, Boston University

Paula Fredriksen is the Aurelio Professor of Scripture at Boston University. The "On Faith" panelist previously held teaching positions at the University of Pittsburgh, University of California -- Berkeley, Stanford and Princeton. She has also taught at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University. Fredriksen earned her doctorate in the history of religions (ancient Christianity, Graeco-Roman religions) at Princeton, writing her dissertation on "Augustine's Early Interpretations of Paul." She has published widely on the social and intellectual history of ancient Christianity from the late Second Temple period to the fall of the Roman Empire in the West. Her books include From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of the New Testament Images of Jesus (1988 and 2000), for which she won the 1988 Yale Press Governors' Award for Best Book, and Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews: A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity (1999), for which she won a National Jewish Book Award. Together with Adele Reinhartz, she edited and contributed to Jesus, Judaism, and Christian Anti-Judaism: Reading the New Testament After the Holocaust (2002). She also edited and contributed to On 'The Passion of the Christ' (2005), a collection of essays about Mel Gibson's controversial film. Her latest book, Augustine and the Jews, is set for publication in 2007. Close.

Paula Fredriksen

Author and Aurelio Professor of Scripture, Boston University

Paula Fredriksen is the Aurelio Professor of Scripture at Boston University. The "On Faith" panelist previously held teaching positions at the University of Pittsburgh, University of California -- Berkeley, Stanford and Princeton. She has also taught at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University. more »

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March 26, 2007 1:36 PM

Second Coming or Third?

Christianity began with the announcement that time and history were about to end. In the mid-1st century, the apostle Paul stated this conviction. (For example, he speaks of “the impending distress” and announces that “the appointed time has grown very short” because “the form of this world is passing away,” 1 Corinthians 7).

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April 6, 2007 10:39 AM

Belief Doesn't Require Proof

The earliest strata of Christian traditions that we have, Paul’s letters and the gospels, proclaim that Jesus truly died and that he was raised. Why do they say this, and what do they mean?

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June 5, 2007 12:52 PM

Now or Later?

This sounds like such a (specifically Protestant) “Christian” question! Which means that I have to imagine the answer. Isn’t “being saved” forever, but “good works” only for the time being, i.e.,here, now, on planet earth?

If so, then the calculus is self-evident: forever is a longer time. On the other hand, were this question being asked from a right-here-right-now perspective, the person holding to the second option listed would definitely make the better neighbor.

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