(Recall that in most instances in the New Testament theos is the Greek title used of Yahweh [of the one whom Jesus himself called ’abbā’].) d. Even if Jesus did not claim to be God, did he know that he was God? This would be simply another way of phrasing the question about the direct or reflex consciousness of Jesus of Nazareth? Yet for a Palestinian Jew of the first century “God” would have meant “Yahweh” or “the Father in heaven,” and hence the question would have meant, “Did Jesus know that he