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Jesus as God: The New Testament Use of Theos in Reference to Jesus is unavailable, but you can change that!

Jesus as God stands as one of the significant exegetical-theological contributions of the century. With linguistic and exegetical skill befitting his ranking as a leading international scholar, Murray J. Harris discusses the New Testament use of the Greek term theos (“God”) as a Christological title.

The application to Christ of the title θεός is exceedingly rare—only seven certain, very probable, or probable instances out of a total of 1,315 NT uses of θεός. From an analysis of representative scholarly views concerning the nine texts discussed in chapters II–VII and IX–XI, it may be seen that the majority of scholars hold that θεός is applied to Jesus no fewer than five times and no more than nine times in the NT.2 The same range
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