E. P. Sanders

Die Welt der BibelDie Gestalten der Bibel gehören zu den bestbelcannten Charalcteren aller Zeiten. Die Ereignisse, in die sie verwoben waren, wurden von Gelehrten jahrhundertelang erforscht. Die Menschen selbst wurden von den größten Künstlern der Welt gemalt, und jede Generation hat ihre...

Paul's missionEarly in the sixth decade of the Common Era, Paul, an itinerant missionary of the Christian movement, was in Corinth, mapping out his own contribution to what he saw as the last stage of God's plan for humanity. He looked simultaneously east and west. He wanted to press on to Spain,...

PREFACE Most scholars who write about the ancient world feel obliged to warn their readers that our knowledge can be at best partial and that certainty is seldom attained. A book about a first-century Jew who lived in a rather unimportant part of the Roman empire must be prefaced by such a...