has suggested that if one of Jesus’s followers had written a Gospel a year or so after his resurrection, one would find an “exaltation Christology,” which described how Jesus “became the Son of God when God worked his greatest miracle on him, raising him from the dead and adopting him as his Son by exalting him to his right hand and bestowing upon him his very own power, prestige, and status.”14 My objective is to question this quasi-consensus that the earliest retrievable Christology