Christ and Empire: The Center for Late Ancient Studies welcomes Paula Fredriksen

The Center for Late Ancient Studies welcomes Paula Fredericksen for a lecture entitled "Christ and Empire."

Paula Fredriksen, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is Aurelio Professor of Scripture emerita at Boston University and Distinguished Visiting Professor emerita in the Department of Comparative Religions at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which awarded her an honorary doctorate in 2018. Educated at Wellesley College, Oxford University and Princeton University, she has published widely on the social and intellectual history of ancient Christianity, and on pagan-Jewish-Christian relations in the Roman Empire. Author of Augustine on Romans (1982) and From Jesus to Christ (1988; 2000), her Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews won the 1999 National Jewish Book Award. More recently, she has explored the development of Christian anti-Judaism, and Augustine'singular response to it, in Augustine and the Jews (2010), and has investigated the shifting conceptions of God and of humanity in SIN: The Early History of an Idea (2012). Paul: The Pagans' Apostle (2017), won the 2018 Prose Award from the American Publishers' Association. Her most recent study, When Christians Were Jews (2018), places the Jesus movement's Jewish messianic message within the wider world of ancient Mediterranean culture, politics, and power.