Paul, the first Christian author, the missionary to the Gentiles who may be said to be the founder of Christian theology, has ong been a figure of prime importanc to New Testament theologians. By c…
This brief study served as the basis for a lecture I gave at a meeting of the Paulusgesellschaft in Bad Godesberg in 1972. It has been reworked and extensive enlarged. Author have avoided extensive…
This short volume goes back to a seminar which I held in Tubingen in the winter semester of 1974-75, and to prepared for a working party on the Evangelish-Katholisch Kimentar which was discussed at…
Of all the earliest Christian authors, we know the most about Paul, through the book of Acts and his own letters. Yet much of Paul's character and personality remains unknown. This important new bo…
Taking as his starting-point Jesus' saying in Matt 8:22, "Let the dead bury the dead," Professor Hengel subjects Jesus' discipleship sayings to a rigorous historical scrutiny. The sharp break with …
Martin Hengel gathers an encyclopedic amount of material, ancient and modern, to present an exhaustive survey of the early course of Hellenistic civilization as it related to developing Judaism. Th…
In the wake of suggestions that the doctrine of the atoning death of Christ did not come into being in the earliest stages of Christianity, Martin Hengel forcefully argues with impeccable scholarsh…
This book, which was written in the 70s, answers those believers in the History of Religions theories. Hengel points out that "The Hellenistic mysteries did not know of sons of gods who died and ro…
More happened in the period between Jesus and Paul, the author argues, than in the whole of the next seven centureis, up to hte time when the doctrine of the early church was completed. Certainly t…
This volume conveniently collects together three related short studies y Professor Hengel, The Son of God, Crucifixion and The Atonement. Together they form an important introduction to the crucial…