He was the originator of what’s known as the \u0027New Perspective on Paul,\u0027 a mass of ideas that every Bible critic now has to digest
He was the originator of what’s known as the “New Perspective on Paul,” a mass of ideas that every Bible critic now has to digest, and it’s worth noting that he developed this perspective during his 18 years at McMaster University, which recruited him in the 1960s during an effort to add liberal-arts strength to a school that already had a good reputation in science and engineering.
He saw that he needed to master Hebrew to play in the big leagues, and his talent was jointly recognized by the Methodist church in Fort Worth and by the congregation of Temple Emanuel in Dallas, which raised money to send him to the equivalent of boot camp in Germany — then still the heart of cutting-edge Protestant theology and the scholarly study of the historical Jesus.
Sanders got distracted, in a way, from this traditional approach, and became engrossed in the study of Jewish texts from around the time of Christ: Philo of Alexandria, Josephus, the Tannaim and the late books of the Old Testament. He wanted to understand the political context in which Christ preached and Paul wrote — something about which the New Testament itself doesn’t tell us much.
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