display of apostolic rivalries, probably originated before this period of accommodation. Finally, there is the way that Jesus himself is treated in this collection. Throughout the collection one is hard pressed to find an instance in which Jesus is referred to by any of the Christological titles that became ever more prominent as the early followership of Jesus grew into a full-fledged religious movement.13 He is not the “Son of Man,”14 or the “Son of God,”15 or the “Messiah” or “Christ,” or even
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