{"id":606,"date":"2010-12-18T23:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T23:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/12\/nijay-gupta-reviews-james-d-g-dunns-book-did-the-first-christians-worship-jesus\/"},"modified":"2010-12-18T23:13:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T23:13:00","slug":"nijay-gupta-reviews-james-d-g-dunns-book-did-the-first-christians-worship-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/12\/nijay-gupta-reviews-james-d-g-dunns-book-did-the-first-christians-worship-jesus.html","title":{"rendered":"Nijay Gupta reviews James D. G. Dunn&#8217;s book, Did the First Christians Worship Jesus?"},"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:\/\/nijaygupta.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/19\/dunn-asks-did-the-first-christians-worship-jesus\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Nijay Gupta<\/a> has posted a review of Jimmy Dunn\u2019s recent book on Christology and monotheism in the earliest church: <span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Did-First-Christians-Worship-Jesus\/dp\/0664231969?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;link_code=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Did the First Christians Worship Jesus?: The New Testament Evidence<\/em><\/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=0664231969\" 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\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-6659821227799041693?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nijay Gupta has posted a review of Jimmy Dunn\u2019s recent book on Christology and monotheism in the earliest church: Did the First Christians Worship Jesus?: The New Testament Evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nijay Gupta reviews James D. 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