Quote of the day
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
E. P. Sanders

Born: April 18, 1937
Died: November 21, 2022 (aged 85)
Bio: Ed Parish Sanders was a New Testament scholar and one of the principal proponents of the "New Perspective on Paul". He was 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.
Known for:
- Paul and Palestinian Judaism (1977)
- The historical figure of Jesus (1993)
- Jesus and Judaism (1985)
- Judaism: Practice and Belief, 63 BCE-66 CE (1992)
- Paul, the law, and the Jewish people (1983)