Israel’s God and Rebecca’s Children

Christology and Community

in Early Judaism and Christianity

Essays in Honor of Larry W. Hurtado and Alan F. Segal

edited by

David B. Capes

April D. DeConick

Helen K. Bond

Troy A. Miller

BAYLOR UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Figure 18.2 is found at

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Israel’s God and Rebecca’s children: christology and community in early Judaism and Christianity: essays in honor of Larry W. Hurtado and Alan F. Segal / edited by David B. Capes [… et al.].

p. cm.

ISBN-13: 978-1-60258-026-8 (cover: alk. paper)

1. Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. 2. Christianity--Origin. 3. Jesus Christ--Person and offices. 4. Community--Religious aspects. 5. Judaism--History--Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.–210 A.D. I. Capes, David B.

BR165.I87 2007

270.1--dc22

2007034698

In memory of Donald H. Juel (1942–2003) an absent but never forgotten founding member of EHCC

Contents

Introduction

Part I: Reconceptualizing Christology and Community

1 How We Talk about Christology Matters

April D. DeConick

2 Mandatory Retirement: Ideas in the Study of Christian Origins Whose Time Has Come to Go

Paula Fredriksen

3 The “Most High” God and the Nature of Early Jewish Monotheism

Richard Bauckham

4 “How on Earth Did Jesus Become a God?”: A Reply

Adela Yarbro Collins

5 Resurrection and Christology: Are They Related?

Pheme Perkins

6 Are Early New Testament Manuscripts Truly Abundant?

Eldon Jay Epp

Part II: Studies in Christology

7 Prophetic Identity and Conflict in the Historic Ministry of Jesus

Maurice Casey

8 Pauline Exegesis and the Incarnate Christ

David B. Capes

9 Christophany as a Sign of “the End”

Carey C. Newman

10 When Did the Understanding of Jesus’ Death as an Atoning Sacrifice First Emerge?

James D. G. Dunn

11 Discarding the Seamless Robe: The High Priesthood of Jesus in John’s Gospel

Helen K. Bond

12 Remembering and Revelation: The Historic and Glorified Jesus in the Gospel of John

Larry W. Hurtado

13 Jesus: “The One Who Sees God”

Marianne Meye Thompson

14 The Lamb (Not the Man) on the Divine Throne

Charles A. Gieschen

Part III: Studies in Community

15 The Promise of the Spirit of Life in the Book of Ezekiel

John R. Levison

16 Sadducees, Zadokites, and the Wisdom of Ben Sira

Jonathan Klawans

17 On the Changing Significance of ...