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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...

It is an exciting time to be studying NT Christology. There are few subjects in biblical studies where it is possible to say that there is a clear and steady movement towards a consensus. But it is hard to disagree with Cambridge scholar Andrew Chester who, in a recent critical review of the field, describes a newly emerging consensus about the early date and character of a belief in Jesus’ divinity.1 In this chapter I describe
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