The Early High Christology Club

February 6, 2013 By 21 Comments

Larry Hurtado has a post about the group of scholars who have come to refer to themselves in humorous fashion as the “Early High Christology Club.” The post includes this delightful story which Larry told me and some others at dinner one evening at SBL in Chicago: An incident often cited subsequently took place after [...]

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Quote of the Day (Larry Hurtado)

July 23, 2012 By 4 Comments

I think I’m not alone in feeling that to show the ill-informed and illogical nature of the current wave of “mythicist” proponents is a bit like having to demonstrate that the earth isn’t flat, or that the sun doesn’t revolve around the earth, or that the moon-landings weren’t done on a movie lot.  It’s a [...]

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Worshiping Jesus around the Biblioblogosphere

September 19, 2011 By 4 Comments

There are a couple of posts from around the blogosphere on the subject of monotheism, Christology and early Christian worship: Larry Hurtado posted on his conversation with James Dunn at the British New Testament Conference, and Kevin Brown posted on the worship of Adam and the light it might shed on the worship of Jesus. [...]

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Essential Languages for New Testament Study?

September 6, 2011 By 26 Comments

The mysterious “objective queer Bible scholar” BW16 has been interacting with Larry Hurtado over the question of which languages and tools are to be considered essential to New Testament study. (See posts 1 and 2 by Hurtado on this topic and 1, 2 and 3 by BW16). There are two questions that need to be [...]

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