For nearly four decades, E. P. Sanders has been the foremost scholar in shaping and refocusing scholarly debates in three different but related disciplines in New Testament studies: Second Temple Judaism, Jesus and the Gospels, and Pauline studies. This collection of essays by an impressive array of colleagues and former students presents original scholarship that extends or departs from the research of Sanders himself. Both apologists and dissenters find their place in this volume, as the authors actively debate Sanders s innovative positions on central issues in all three disciplines.The...