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This is the first of a four-volume groundbreaking study of Christological origins. The fruit of twenty years research, Jesus Monotheism lays out a new paradigm that goes beyond the now widely held view that Paul and others held to an unprecedented “Christological monotheism.” There was already, in Second Temple Judaism and in the Bible, a kind of “Christological monotheism.” But it is first with...

The whole of this passage, beginning with the love of God in verse 3, evokes the Jewish monotheistic confession laid out in the opening line of the daily prayer known as the Shema: Hear, O Israel, the LORD/Yhwh our God, the LORD/Yhwh is One. The first verse of the Shema is written in Hebrew and Greek: Deut 6:4 (Heb.): Shema Yisrael Yhwh elohenu Yhwh ehad. Deut 6:4 (LXX): Akoue, Israēl; Kyrios ho theos hēmōn Kyrios heis estin. Paul does far more than evoke the Shema. As my underlining of shared vocabulary
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