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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...

The extent to which rabbinic caution in this area is shared and anticipated in the ancient biblical versions was brought out especially by A. Geiger, and emphasis on it can aid depiction of ancient Jewish monotheism as characteristically rigorous and ‘exclusive’. The point being stressed at present is a complementary one, which Geiger also noted on occasion: the extent to which the LXX and the earlier versions, together with Jewish writers of the Herodian age as cited above, still perpetuate that
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