E. P. Sanders Quotes

United States, Scholar
April 18, 1937

Ed Parish Sanders FBA (born 18 April 1937) is an American 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.

That Jesus’ followers (and later Paul) had resurrection experiences is, in my judgment, a fact. What the reality was that gave rise to the experiences I do not know.

E. P. Sanders
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