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It is the premise of Early Jewish and Christian Monotheism that early Christology must focus, not simply on historical, but also on theological ideas found in Jewish thought and practice. The contributors to this book consider the context and formation of early Jewish and Christian devotion to God alone. The idea of monotheism is critically examined from various perspectives, including the...

disagrees with Hurtado when he rejects the notion that the worship of Jesus was a religious-historical innovation within the framework of Jewish monotheism. Instead, he finds precedent for cultic devotion to Jesus in the worship of ‘certain righteous individuals’ who are in one way or another ‘God’s Image, his living idols’.42 He cites a number of texts in which humans, especially the high priest, appear to be worshipped in a way that, at the same time, was deemed to lie entirely within Jewish monotheistic
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