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Jesus And The God Of Israel “God Crucified” and Other Essays on the New Testament’s Christology of Divine Identity The basic thesis of this important book on New Testament Christology, sketched in the first essay ‘God Crucified, is that the worship of Jesus as God was seen by the early Christians as compatible with their Jewish monotheism. Jesus was thought to participate in the divine...

they wished to identify God as unique. To our question, ‘In what did Second Temple Judaism consider the uniqueness of the one God to consist, what distinguished God as unique from all other reality, including beings worshipped as gods by Gentiles?’, the answer given again and again, in a wide variety of Second Temple Jewish literature, is that the only true God, YHWH, the God of Israel, is sole Creator of all things[8] and sole Ruler of all things.[9] While these characteristics are by no means sufficient
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