Paula Fredriksen is a historian and a scholar of religious studies at Boston University. She has received the National Endowment for the Humanities Grant and the Lady Davis Visiting Professorship of Ancient Christianity award amongth others. The first book she wrote in 1988 received the Yale Press Governors' Award for the Best Book. She holds a Ph.D. in history of religions, ancient Christianity and Greco-Roman religions from Princeton University. She also has a theology diploma from Oxford University. She holds the position of William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of the Appreciation of Scripture at Boston University
Works
- On The Passion of the Christ: Exploring the Issues Raised by the Controversial Movie, Paula Fredriksen, University of California Press, to be published on February 2006.
- From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of the New Testament Images of Jesus (Yale Nota Bene), Paula Fredriksen, Yale University Press, 2nd edition, 2000.
- Jesus, Judaism, and Christian Anti-Judaism: Reading the New Testament After the Holocaust, Paula Fredriksen, Adele Reinhartz, Westminster John Knox Press; 2002.
- Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews: A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity, Paula Fredriksen, Vintage Press, 2000.
- Augustine on Romans, Paula Fredriksen, Chico: Scholars Press, 1982.
External links
- Academic biography at Boston University.
- The Gospel According to Gibson, an article by Fredriksen on Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ.