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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...

(divine) emperor.47 But the early Christians were not ditheists. The worship of Jesus was not expressed through the setting up of a new temple shrine to him. Jesus is not added to an existing pantheon. The birth of Christianity was not marked by the worship of a new Mediterranean god, but by the belief that the one unique God—Yhwh-Kyrios—had climatically, at the end of Israel’s history, appeared in fully human and a highly personal form. The NT texts adopt various strategies to ensure that the grammar
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