Israel's God and Rebecca's children:

Israel's God and Rebecca's children: christology and community in early Judaism and Christianity : essays in honor of Larry W. Hurtado and Alan F. Segal / edited by David B. Capes ... [et al.]. - Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, c2007. - 1 online resource (xviii, 480 p.)

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-473).

Reconceptualizing Christology and community. How we talk about Christology matters / Mandatory retirement : ideas in the study of Christian origins whose time has come to go / The "Most High" God and the nature of early Jewish monotheism / "How on earth did Jesus become a God?" : a reply / Resurrection and Christology : are they related? / Are early New Testament manuscripts truly abundant? / Studies in Christology. Prophetic identity and conflict in the historic ministry of Jesus / Pauline exegesis and the incarnate Christ / Christophany as a sign of "the end" / When did the understanding of Jesus' death as an atoning sacrifice first emerge? / Discarding the seamless robe : the high priesthood of Jesus in John's Gospel / Remembering and revelation : the historic and glorified Jesus in the Gospel of John / Jesus : "the one who sees God" / The Lamb (not the man) on the divine throne / Studies in community. The promise of the spirit of life in the book of Ezekiel / Sadducees, Zadokites, and the Wisdom of Ben Sira / On the changing significance of the sacred / Vespasian, Nerva, Jesus, and Fiscus Judaicus / Paul's religious experience in the eyes of Jewish scholars / Liturgy and communal identity : Hellenistic synagogal prayer 5 and the character of early Syrian Christianity / Anger, reconciliation, and friendship in Matthew 5:21-26 / April D. DeConick. Paul Fredriksen. Richard Bauckham. Adela Yarbro Collins. Pheme Perkins. Eldon Jay Epp -- Maurice Casey. David B. Capes. Carey C. Newman. James D.G. Dunn. Helen K. Bond. Larry W. Hurtado. Marianne Meye Thompson. Charles A. Gieschen -- John R. Levison. Jonathan Klawans. Rachel Elior. Paul Foster. Alan F. Segal. Troy A. Miller. John T. Fitzgerald.

9781602581821 143563229X (electronic bk.)


Jesus Christ--Person and offices.


Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Christianity--Origin.
Communities--Religious aspects.
Judaism--History--Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.
Jodendom.
Vroege christendom.
Christologie.
Groepen (sociologie)


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