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To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
Gerd Theissen

Born: April 24, 1943 (age 82)
Bio: Gerd Theißen is a German Protestant theologian and New Testament scholar. He is Professor of New Testament Theology at the University of Heidelberg.
Known for:
- The shadow of the Galilean (1987)
- The Historical Jesus: A Comprehensive Guide (1998)
- The Religion of the Earliest Churches (1999)
- Fortress introduction to the New Testament (2003)
- The social setting of Pauline Christianity (1982)