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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...

This placing of Jesus in the center of the cultus of a believing community, this peculiar doubling of the object of veneration in worship, is conceivable only in an environment in which Old Testament monotheism no longer ruled unconditionally and with absolute security.”7 So Jesus could have been acclaimed “Lord” only outside a Palestinian context. Second, literary and material evidence from Greek and Roman culture makes it likely that only within this context could Jesus have been described as some
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