E. P. Sanders
American New Testament scholar (1937–2022) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ed Parish Sanders FBA (April 18, 1937 – November 21, 2022) was an American New Testament scholar and a principal proponent of the "New Perspective on Paul".[5] He was a major scholar in the scholarship on the historical Jesus and contributed to the view that Jesus was part of a renewal movement within Judaism.[6] Sanders identified himself as a "liberal, modern, secularized Protestant" in his book Jesus and Judaism; fellow scholar John P. Meier called him a postliberal Protestant. He was Arts and Sciences Professor of Religion at Duke University, North Carolina from 1990 until his retirement in 2005.
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Born | Ed Parish Sanders (1937-04-18)April 18, 1937 Grand Prairie, Texas, U.S. |
Died | November 21, 2022(2022-11-21) (aged 85) |
Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities |
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Thesis | The Tendencies of the Synoptic Tradition (1969) |
Doctoral advisor | W. D. Davies |
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Discipline | Biblical studies |
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Doctoral students | Adele Reinhartz |
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Notable ideas | New Perspective on Paul |
Influenced | James Dunn[4] |
Sanders was a Fellow of the British Academy. In 1966, he received a Doctor of Theology degree from Union Theological Seminary in New York City. In 1990, he received a Doctor of Letters degree from the University of Oxford and a Doctor of Theology degree from the University of Helsinki. He authored, co-authored, or edited 13 books and numerous articles. He received a number of prizes, including the 1990 University of Louisville and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary Grawemeyer Award for the best book on religion, Jesus and Judaism[7] (Fortress Press, 1985).