Of the 60,000 scholarly studies of the life of Jesus that appeared in the 19th century, one of the most unusual and fascinating was Friedrich Nietzsche's The Antichrist . Unfortunately, a number of factors combine to virtually ensure that Nietzsche's reflections not only on Jesu…
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In the history of scholarship on the Acts of the Apostles, various understandings of "Pauline Christianity" have consistently influenced the reconstruction of historical, social, and literary contexts for the interpretation of this text in general and the Paul of Acts in particu…
This dissertation addresses the issue of Paul's conflict with the Diaspora Jews. Paul's strategy of using the synagogue as his base of operation when he first arrived on a mission field does not seem to be in accord with his calling as an apostle to the Gentiles. Various solutio…
The thesis of this dissertation is that Paul used the living God epithet with a significance that derived from his missionary preaching, and which informed his handling of the epithet in Rom 9:26; 2 Cor 3:3; 6:16. Paul's use of the epithet reflected its traditional background in…
Philo of Alexandria (c.20 BCE-c.50 CE) has been characterized by scholars of the twentieth century as a great philosopher (Harry A. Wolfson), a Hellenized mystic (Erwin R. Goodenough, David Winston), and recently as an allegorizing exegete of the Hebrew scriptures (Valentin Niki…
Did Paul ever meet Jesus and hear him teach? A century ago, a curious assortment of scholars -- William Ramsay, Johannes Weiss, and James Hope Moulton - thought that he had. Since then, their idea has virtually disappeared from New Testament scholarship, to be revived in this mo…
