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Jesus the Eternal Son: Answering Adoptionist Christology is unavailable, but you can change that!

Adoptionism—the idea that Jesus is portrayed in the Bible as a human figure who was adopted as God’s son at his baptism or resurrection—has been commonly accepted in much recent scholarship as the earliest explanation of Jesus’s divine status. In this book Michael Bird draws that view into question with a thorough examination of pre-Pauline materials, the Gospel of Mark, and patristic sources. ...

It was of course not all smooth sailing from Nazareth to Nicea. Complicating factors included varied presentations of Jesus’s person in light of diverse interpretations of Israel’s Scriptures, the struggle of the Judean and trans-Jordan churches to find legitimation for their messianic faith within common Judaism (pre-70 CE), and then antagonism with proto-rabbinic Judaism (post-70 CE). In addition, by the middle of the first century we already see the first phase of an extended encounter with Hellenism
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