Paula Fredriksen, the Aurelio Professor of Scripture emerita at Boston University, since 2009 has been Distinguished Visiting Professor of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she also holds two honorary doctorates in theology and religious studies. She has published widely on the social and intellectual history of ancient Christianity, and on pagan-Jewish-Christian relations in the Roman Empire. Her "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews", won a 1999 National Jewish Book Award. More recently, she has explored the development of Christian anti-Judaism, and Augustine’s singular response to it, in "Augustine and the Jews: A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism" (2010); and has investigated the shifting conceptions of God and of humanity in "Sin: The Early History of an Idea" (2012). "Paul: The Pagans’ Apostle" (2017), places Paul’s Jewish messianic message to gentiles within the wider world of ancient Mediterranean culture.