E. P. Sanders
| Ed Parish Sanders | |
|---|---|
| Born |
April 18, 1937 Grand Prairie, Texas |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Arts and Sciences Professor of Religion at Duke University |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Wesleyan College, Fort Worth & Southern Methodist University |
| Alma mater | Union Seminary (Th.D.) |
| Thesis title | The Tendencies of the Synoptic Tradition |
| Thesis year | 1969 |
| Doctoral advisor | W. D. Davies |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | New Testament studies |
| Institutions |
Queen's College Trinity College, Dublin University of Cambridge Duke University |
| Main interests | Judaism, historical Jesus |
| Notable works | Paul and Palestinian Judaism, The Historical Figure of Jesus |
| Notable ideas | New Perspective on Paul |
Ed Parish Sanders (born 18 April 1937) is a New Testament scholar and one of the principal proponents of the "New Perspective on Paul". He is a major scholar in contemporary scholarship on the historical Jesus, and he contributed to the view that Jesus was part of a renewal movement within Judaism. He has been Arts and Sciences Professor of Religion at Duke University, North Carolina, since 1990. He retired in 2005.
Sanders is a Fellow of the British Academy. In 1966 he received a Th.D. from Union Seminary in NYC. In 1990 he received a D. Litt. from the University of Oxford and a Th.D. from the University of Helsinki. He has authored, co-authored or edited 13 books and numerous articles. He has received a number of prizes, including the 1990 University of Louisville and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary Grawemeyer Award for the best book on religion published in the 1980s for Jesus and Judaism.
Sanders was born and grew up in Grand Prairie, Texas. He attended Wesleyan College, Fort Worth (1955-1959) and Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University, Dallas (1959-1962). He spent a year (1962-1963) studying at Göttingen, the University of Oxford and in Jerusalem.
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