"Those familiar with Professor Hagner's earlier work will be pleased with this volume. He has updated and clarified many of his earlier perspectives and produced a credible perspective how Jesus and Paul were perceived in the emergence of early Christianity by friend and foe alike. He challenges many anachronistic beliefs and commonly used designations (Jew, Christian, Judaism, apocryphal, etc.), but acknowledges that early Christianity did not seek to disassociate from its Jewish siblings but rather to introduce the new identity and significance of Jesus that became the church's Gospel. Hagner again advances and updates our understanding of Jesus and Paul in the emergence of early Christianity, and I highly recommend this volume."
--Lee Martin McDonald, President Emeritus, Acadia Divinity College

"What a pleasure to have before us a collection of Don Hagner's learned and insightful essays on Jesus and Paul in their Jewish and Christian setting. All students of the New Testament will benefit from these careful and well-argued studies, spanning more than four decades of research and critical engagement with the best scholars in the field. Highly recommended."
--Craig A. Evans, Distinguished Research Professor, The Bible Seminary, Katy, Texas

"Donald Hagner has been a voice of balance and moderation throughout his career as a New Testament scholar. These essays spanning much of that career evidence his ability to find a way to bring competing views on an issue into a reasonable synthesis that respects varying opinions and complex evidence. The relationship of Jesus and Paul to Judaism has been one of those persistent issues and is especially contentious in recent scholarly discussion. I am glad to see that Don is addressing both Jesus and Paul within the context of the emergence of Christianity by drawing on a lifetime of serious scholarship."
--Stanley E. Porter, President, McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada