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Henrichs-Tarasenkova argues against a long tradition of scholars about how best to represent Luke’s Christology. When read against the backdrop of ancient ways of constructing personal identity, key texts in the Lukan narrative demonstrate that Luke indirectly characterizes Jesus as the one God of Israel together with YHWH. Henrichs-Tarasenkova employs a narrative approach that takes into...

Conzelmann’s convictions that (1) Luke-Acts has to contain systematic considerations of the ontological relationship between the Father God and Jesus to guarantee Jesus’ being God; (2) statements pertaining to Jesus’ functioning as God are not enough to argue for Jesus’ being God; and (3) it is inappropriate to speak of the Lukan Jesus as God against the background of Second Temple Jewish monotheism find their corollary in the fact that few scholars have ventured to argue for the possibility of divine
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