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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