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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...

to deity, soteriology, eschatology, and ecclesiology. We will return to these four areas in speaking particularly of Paul’s letters. It goes almost without saying that Christ is the focus of the Gospels. Even a cursory examination of word usage reveals this fact. For example, Jesus is the subject of 24.4 percent of all the verbs in the Gospel of Mark—with another fifth of the verbs in this earliest Gospel occurring on Jesus’ lips. The next closest figure
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