Paul and the Conflict of Cultures

“The work of Edwin Judge has been an inspiration and an education to generations of students of early Christianity. His unrivaled classical knowledge and insight has again and again shed a flood of light on the early churches and what Paul was saying to them. These essays will do the same again and enable all of us to profit from Professor Judge's lifelong labors.”


—N. T. Wright, University of St Andrews





“More thoughtful and thought-provoking essays by the antipodean master of the ancient world, who is so good at showing its relevance for ours. Great discussion starters!”


—Larry W. Hurtado, University of Edinburgh





“Edwin Judge’s Paul and the Conflict of Cultures faces without flinching the forces that define our present moment in the history of the West: technological change, mass migration, class conflict, and loss of identity. Judge diagnoses the cause of the crisis we are now experiencing: a profound conflict between two different views of the world—the one emanating from Athens, the other from Jerusalem. . . . It is doubtful whether any other historian alive today could have produced such a work, with such penetrating, mature, and breathtaking insights into the complexities of our cultural traditions, animated by a sincere concern for the danger that hangs over the present.”


—L. L. Welborn, Fordham University and Macquarie University