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This volume is based on the Radboud Prestige Lectures delivered by Judith M. Lieu in Nijmegen in 2022. The Radboud Prestige Lectures provide a forum for cutting-edge research in New Testament and Early Christian Literature. The lectures are published by Brill Academic Publishers along with responses by scholars from all over the world. This unique format allows for in-depth discussion among leading scholarly voices.
Previous publications based on Radboud Prestige Lectures include:
– Jan van der Watt—The Ethics of John: Retrospect and Prospects (edited by Jan van der Watt and Matthijs den Dulk), Leiden: Brill, 2025.
– Jörg Frey—2 Peter and the Apocalypse of Peter: Towards a New Perspective (edited by Jörg Frey, Matthijs den Dulk and Jan van der Watt), Leiden: Brill, 2019.
– Alan Culpepper—Creation Stories in Dialogue: The Bible, Science, and Folk Traditions (edited by Alan Culpepper and Jan van der Watt), Leiden: Brill, 2015.
– Pieter W. van der Horst—Saxa judaica loquuntur: Lessons from Early Jewish Inscriptions, Leiden: Brill, 2014.
– Michael Wolter—The Quest for the Real Jesus (edited by Jan van der Watt), Leiden: Brill, 2013.
For more information about the Radboud Prestige Lectures, please visit
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ISSN 2589-9805
ISBN 978-90-04-74614-5 (hardback)
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