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Christology in the Synoptic Gospels: God or God’s Servant? is unavailable, but you can change that!

Who was Jesus of Nazareth? For hundreds of years, Christians have answered that he is God’s Son, fully God, and also fully man. The classic formulation is found in the Nicene Creed (325 CE), which affirms that he is “of the essence of the Father, God of God, Light of Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father.” The creed goes on to explain...

And all their designs against him will come to nothing, and (his) rule over all the living will be great. His designs [will succeed], for he is the Elect of God. His birth and the breath of his spirit … and his designs shall be for ever … (4Q534 1.7–10) Since the scroll mentions “the breath of his spirit,” many scholars have seen an allusion to the messianic prophecy in Isa. 11:4 and identified this elect one as the Messiah. But the majority of scholars follow Joseph Fitzmyer, who thinks the elect
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