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The second annual St. Andrews Conference on Scripture and Theology brought leading biblical scholars and systematic theologians together in conversation, seeking to bridge the growing gap between these disciplines. Reflecting the convergence of the Old Testament’s cultic theology, Hellenistic ideas, and early Christian thinking, the epistle to the Hebrews provides a perfect foundation for this...

characteristics of Jewish monotheism—the ways in which the God of Israel was understood to be unique—and applies them also to Jesus. We need to begin with those divine characteristics. We are concerned with the ways in which Jews identified their God as unique, the ways in which they distinguished him from all other reality.2 For this purpose I believe that the category of unique identity does more justice to the material than that of divine nature (though the latter can, as we shall see, take a
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