![]() ![]() History of ancient Christianity, and on pagan-Jewish-Christian relations in the Roman Empire. She has published widely on the social and intellectual A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she also holds honorary doctorates from Iona College (USA), Lund University (Sweden), and Hebrew University (Israel). Paula Fredriksen, the Aurelio Professor of Scripture emerita at Boston University, since 2009 has been distinguished Visiting Professor of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Supported by the generosity of the Kaye and Radov families. Fredriksen offers a vivid portrait both of this temple-centered messianic movement and of the bedrock convictions that animated and sustained it. ![]() As her account arcs from this group’s hopeful celebration of Passover with Jesus, through their bitter controversies that fragmented the movement’s midcentury missions, to the city’s fiery end in the Roman destruction of Jerusalem, she brings this vibrant apostolic community to life. Join us for a book talk with Paula Fredriksen as she answers this question by reconstructing the life of the earliest Jerusalem community. But in history’s eyes, they became the first Christians. How did a group of charismatic, apocalyptic Jewish missionaries, working to prepare their world for the impending realization of God’s promises to Israel, end up inaugurating a movement that would grow into the gentile church? Committed to Jesus’s prophecy-“The Kingdom of God is at hand!”-they were, in their own eyes, history’s last generation. ![]()
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