{"id":2791,"date":"2010-11-09T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T08:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/11\/larry-hurtado-reviews-the-only-true-god\/"},"modified":"2010-11-09T08:55:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T08:55:00","slug":"larry-hurtado-reviews-the-only-true-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/11\/larry-hurtado-reviews-the-only-true-god.html","title":{"rendered":"Larry Hurtado reviews The Only True God"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Only-True-God-Christian-Monotheism\/dp\/025203418X?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;link_code=bil&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Only True God: Early Christian Monotheism in Its Jewish Context\" src=\"http:\/\/ws.amazon.com\/widgets\/q?MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;WS=1&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ASIN=025203418X&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=bil&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=025203418X\" style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none;margin: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important\" width=\"1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/larryhurtado.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/09\/review-of-james-mcgraths-book\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Larry Hurtado<\/a> has written a review of my book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Only-True-God-Christian-Monotheism\/dp\/025203418X?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;link_code=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Only True God<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=025203418X\" style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none;margin: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important\" width=\"1\"><\/em>, an extended version of which he has <a href=\"http:\/\/larryhurtado.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/mcgrath-reveiw-essay.pdf\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">shared on his web site<\/a>. Larry Hurtado<\/p>\n<p>A couple of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sxcari.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/larry-hurtado-reviews-mcgrath-only-true.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">other bloggers<\/a> managed to mention this before I had the chance to, which\u00a0really attests to the effectiveness of blogs as means for spreading news and information. One of them is <a href=\"http:\/\/rdtwot.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/09\/its-about-that-time-2\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Nick Norelli<\/a>, who has apparently been prompted by this to take the time to review the book himself, which is great to hear.<\/p>\n<p>I hope\u00a0on a later occasion\u00a0to interact with some of the points Larry makes. For now, I\u2019ll simply share <a href=\"http:\/\/larryhurtado.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/mcgrath-reveiw-essay.pdf\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a link to the review<\/a>, and express my gratitude to Larry for taking the time to review the book and for sharing his review publicly.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-505092800199456734?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Hurtado has written a review of my book The Only True God, an extended version of which he has shared on his web site. Larry Hurtado A couple of\u00a0other bloggers managed to mention this before I had the chance to, which\u00a0really attests to the effectiveness of blogs as means for spreading news and information. 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