PAULA FREDRIKSEN, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is Aurelio Professor of Scripture emerita at Boston University. Since 2009, she has been a member of the Department of Comparative Religions at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which awarded her an honorary doctorate in 2018. Educated at Wellesley College, Oxford University and Princeton University, she has published widely on the social and intellectual history of ancient Christianity, and on pagan-Jewish-Christian relations in the Roman Empire. Her two latest books, Paul: The Pagans’ Apostle (2017), and When Christians Were Jews (2018), place the Jesus movement’s Jewish messianic message within the wider world of ancient Mediterranean culture, politics, and power.

GOODMAN LECTURE is an endowed lecture with a mission

of strengthening Jewish-Christian understanding. Arthur and

Konstance Goodman, themselves an interfaith couple, established

this annual lecture in 1979. Their family continues the endowment

to honor their parents and carry on their commitment.