of Jesus was largely the theology of a first-century Jew. And where that first-century theology was limited in its vision, so too was the theological vision of Jesus. Orthodoxy only demands that Jesus was sinless, not that his teachings were wholly insulated from the human condition. If there are difficulties in Marshall’s thesis, these involve the longstanding Christian debate about the communicatio idiomatum (“sharing of attributes”) between Jesus’ divine and human natures. To what extent were
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