Luke’s Christology of Divine Identity (Biblia.com)

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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...

YHWH and to understand Jesus’ relationship to YHWH as a relationship that supersedes any other relationship in Jesus’ life. Therefore, he introduces Jesus as the one who shares YHWH’s divine identity from the beginning of his narrative. We first hear about Jesus when YHWH sends Gabriel to Mary to announce Jesus’ conception and birth (1:26–38). As Luke develops Jesus’ characterization in the course of Gabriel’s dialog with Mary, his readers learn that Jesus will be an ideal Davidic

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