How God Became Jesus Excerpt and a Review by Fulcrum

Over at Christianity.com is an excerpt of HGBJ.

Also, there is a nice review of the book by Bowman Walton over at Fulcrum called Bauckham’s Line – A Review of “How God Became Jesus”.

He writes:

Bird and his co-authors ground their case for “Yes” mostly in Bauckham’s “line that monotheism must draw between the Creator and creatures”. Those who join their voices “with angels and archangels and all the company of heaven” will be interested, possibly entertained, by Bird’s discussion of angelology, but his main critique of Ehrman’s angelic Jesus is that because angels are creatures, Jews like the apostles did not worship them. Craig Evans buries Ehrman in legal and archaeological evidence that crucified convicts in Jerusalem were entombed by the Sanhedrin, especially when the city was swollen for Passover with volatile crowds outnumbering edgy soldiers. Although his point is that Jesus was buried, his chapter is also a rare “material culture” glimpse of the occupying army of polytheists coming to terms with the monotheistic civilisation in Jerusalem. Apart from the chapters, Bird’s “excurses”, annotated selections of quotations or photographs, hint at the richness on the Creator’s side of that line.