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One God, One Lord: Early Christian Devotion and Ancient Jewish Monotheism (Third Edition) is unavailable, but you can change that!

Larry Hurtado’s One God, One Lord has been described as ‘one of the most important and provocative Christologies of all time.’ The book has taken its place among works on Jesus as one consistently cited, consistently read, and consistently examined in scholarly discourse. You will expand your knowledge of the early cultic devotion to Jesus through a range of Jewish sources. Hurtado outlines an...

slightly later Jewish sources, which apparently reject cultic devotion to Jesus as constituting an example of the worship of “two powers in heaven,” that is, the worship of two gods.3 We may have indirect evidence of this suggestion in the apostle Paul. It is, in my view, likely that Paul’s persecution of Jewish Christians (Gal. 1:13–14; 1 Cor. 15:9) prior to his conversion experience was occasioned partly by the reverence they gave to Jesus. Paul describes his change of heart as brought about because
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