Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
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)