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