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New Testament Christological Hymns: Exploring Texts, Contexts, and Significance is unavailable, but you can change that!

We know that the earliest Christians sang hymns. Paul encourages believers to sing “psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs.” And at the dawn of the second century the Roman official Pliny names a feature of Christian worship as “singing alternately a hymn to Christ as to God.” But are some of these early Christian hymns preserved for us in the New Testament? Are they right before our eyes? New...

captured the attention of biblical scholars and that have been identified as christological hymns—hymns in praise of Christ.3 Before diving into the necessary preliminary matters in this introductory chapter, it is important to outline several features of these texts that make the study of them so imperative. First, based on their contents alone these are some of the richest and deepest passages in the New Testament. Even a casual reading of these passages puts the reader in touch with some of the
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