Pieter van der Horst
Professor Emeritus, Utrecht University
Pieter van der Horst is a scholar specialising in New Testament studies, Early Christian literature and the Jewish and Hellenistic context of Early Christianity. He is professor emeritus in the faculty of theology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Since 1994 he is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He is the author of many books, including Studies in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity (2014). His website is www.pietervanderhorst.com
Written by Pieter van der Horst
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Thinkers and theories
The Bible’s first critic
Centuries before Spinoza, there was Ḥiwi al-Balkhi, a Jewish freethinker for whom the Bible was too irrational for faith
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History
How the poor became blessed
Greco-Roman gods had no interest in the poor nor was organised charity a religious duty. How was Christianity different?
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Stories and literature
Pagans against Genesis
Confused, inferior and philosophically unsound: the Greco-Roman critique of the Old Testament could have been written today
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