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Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-473).

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