# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paula-fredriksen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:51:40.562Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paula-fredriksen"
name: "Paula Fredriksen"
slug: "paula-fredriksen"
description: "Paula Fredriksen is an American historian and scholar of early Christianity. She held the position of William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of Scripture at Boston University from 1990 to 2010. Now emerita, she has been a distinguished visiting professor in the Department of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, since 2009."
tagline: "American historian and academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/PaulaFredriksen.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1951-01-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.120702666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "پاؤلا فریڈرکسن"
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    title: "باولا فريدريكسن"
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    title: "پولا فريدريكسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paula Fredriksen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paula Fredriksen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "פולה פרדריקסן"
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    title: "Paula Fredriksen"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump