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Unity and Diversity in the New Testament: An Inquiry into the Character of Earliest Christianity is unavailable, but you can change that!

Unity and Diversity in the New Testament is a thorough investigation of the canon of the New Testament and Christianity’s origins. It assumes the reader is familiar with the basic issues of date, authorship, and occasion of the books, looking in detail at the various emphases in the gospel proclaimed by Jesus, Luke, Paul, and John. It also examines primitive Christianity’s preaching and teaching,...

Jesus.8 All in all however there is sufficient indication that the Son of Man tradition underwent some development at least within the earliest community. This strongly suggests that the earliest churches thought of Jesus as the Son of Man in a creative way, that the conviction that Jesus was the Son of Man was an important part of their faith. 9.2 Can we be more specific? How important was this belief for them? To what extent is our present Son of Man sayings material the work of the earliest community
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