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Contours of Christology in the New Testament features first-class biblical scholars who steep readers in the biblical texts about Jesus. These essays focus on the New Testament writers’ various understandings of Jesus, their differing emphases seen as contours in the common landscape of New Testament Christology. Sweeping in scope, the volume begins with a look at early christology and covers the...

creation narrative in Gen 1:1–4. The opening words “In the beginning” (en archē) are identical with the opening of Genesis (Hebrew berē’šîṯ, Greek LXX en archē). And the impression of the retelling of Genesis would be furthered by the repetition of these words in v. 2, the reference to the creation of all things by the Word in v. 3, and the key words “light” and “darkness” in vv. 4–5 (cf. Gen 1:3–5). Retellings and reinterpretations of the Genesis creation narrative are common in the extant Jewish
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