{"id":20816,"date":"2014-01-23T15:47:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T20:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=20816"},"modified":"2014-01-23T15:47:04","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T20:47:04","slug":"early-jewish-christian-christology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/01\/early-jewish-christian-christology.html","title":{"rendered":"Early Jewish Christian Christology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

At Reading Acts, there have been two posts on Jewish-Christian Christology. Here are links to part 1<\/a> and part 2<\/a>. See also the video shared at Euangelion, in which Mike Licona and Dale Martin discuss \u00a0whether Jesus thought he was God:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/iframe>\nI find the depiction of Paul as claiming that Jesus was God to be problematic. Paul is nuanced in ways that modern conservative Christians are not, and strong evidence of that is the lack of any evidence that Paul\u2019s Christology was controversial in a Jewish context.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/larryhurtado.wordpress.com\/2014\/01\/22\/forthcoming-article-ancient-jewish-monotheism\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Larry Hurtado blogged<\/a> about a forthcoming article of his on ancient Jewish monotheism.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/archives\/5840\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dale Tuggy interacted<\/a> with Ben Nasmith on related issues as well.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0252078799\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0252078799&linkCode=as2&tag=jamefmcgrshom-20\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=0252078799&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=jamefmcgrshom-20\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0252078799\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At Reading Acts, there have been two posts on Jewish-Christian Christology. 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