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The Divine Christ: Paul, the Lord Jesus, and the Scriptures of Israel is unavailable, but you can change that!

For the past century, scholars have debated when and how a divine Christology emerged. This book considers the earliest evidence we have, the letters of Paul. David Capes, a veteran teacher and highly regarded scholar, examines Paul’s letters to show how the apostle constructed his unique portrait of Jesus as divine through a rereading of Israel’s Scriptures. This volume is ideal for courses on...

Let’s begin this chapter by sketching the rough edge of a debate that has been ongoing among scholars of early Christianity regarding how early the kyrios title was applied to Jesus and what the devout would have meant when they used it. Early in the twentieth century Wilhelm Bousset argued that it was not until Christianity moved into a Hellenistic environment that the title kyrios (“Lord”) would have been applied to Jesus. Jewish monotheism, Bousset and his
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