E. P. Sanders, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

E. P. Sanders

American biblical scholar

Date of Birth: 18-Apr-1937

Place of Birth: Grand Prairie, Texas, United States

Profession: translator, theologian, university teacher, philosopher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Ed Parish Sanders (born 18 April 1937) is an American New Testament scholar and a principal proponent of the "New Perspective on Paul".
He is a major scholar in the scholarship on the historical Jesus and contributed to the view that Jesus was part of a renewal movement within Judaism.
He has been Arts and Sciences Professor of Religion at Duke University, North Carolina, since 1990.
He retired in 2005. Sanders is a Fellow of the British Academy.
In 1966 he received a Doctor of Theology degree from Union Theological Seminary in New York City.
In 1990 he received a Doctor of Letters degree from the University of Oxford and a Doctor of Theology degree from the University of Helsinki.
He has authored, co-authored or edited 13 books and numerous articles.
He has received a number of prizes, including the 1990 University of Louisville and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary Grawemeyer Award for the best book on religion published in the 1980s for Jesus and Judaism.