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In Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity, Matthew V. Novenson brings together thirteen state-of-the-art essays by leading scholars on the various ways ancient Jewish, Christian, and classical writers conceive of God, Christ, Wisdom, the demiurge, angels, foreign gods, and other divine beings. In particular, the book revisits the “early high Christology” debates of the 1990s, identifying the lasting contributions thereof as well as the lingering difficulties and new, emerging questions from the last thirty years of research. The essays in this book probe the much-touted but under-theorized distinctions between monotheism and polytheism, Judaism and Hellenism, Christianity and paganism. They show how what we call monotheism and Christology fit within the Greco-Roman world of which they are part.

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Author:   Matthew V. Novenson
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   180
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9789004437975

ISBN 10:   9004437975
Pages:   362
Publication Date:   20 August 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Abbreviations Translations Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction  Matthew V. Novenson 2 The New religionsgeschichtliche Schule at Thirty: Observations by a Participant  Larry W. Hurtado 3 The Universal Polytheism and the Case of the Jews  Matthew V. Novenson 4 The Divine Name as a Characteristic of Divine Identity in Second-Temple Judaism and Early Christianity  Charles A. Gieschen 5 Jesus’ Unique Relationship with YHWH in Biblical Exegesis: A Response to Recent Objections  David B. Capes 6 God and Glory and Paul, Again: Divine Identity and Community Formation in the Early Jesus Movement  Carey C. Newman 7 Confessing the Cosmic Christ (1 Corinthians 8:6 and Colossians 1:15–20)  Richard Bauckham 8 One God, One Lord in the Epistle of James  Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr 9 Between Jewish Monotheism and Proto-Trinitarian Relations: The Making and Character of Johannine Christology  Jörg Frey 10 God and Christ in the Earlier Martyr Acts  Jan N. Bremmer 11 Gnosis and the Tragedies of Wisdom: Sophia’s Story  Pheme Perkins 12 The One God Is No Simple Matter  April D. DeConick 13 How High Can Early High Christology Be?  Paula Fredriksen Index of Ancient Sources Index of Modern Authors Index of Subjects

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“A short review cannot do justice to these complex and fully argued essays. Each one raises questions, which cannot be enumerated here. Suffice it to say that these are excellent discussions leading to substantial, sometimes provocative, conclusions, some more persuasive than others […] Serious students of early Christology will be grateful for the health of this ongoing discussion reflected in these essays.” – Kent E. Brower, Nazarene Theological College, in: Journal for the Study of the New Testament Booklist 2022 44.5, August 2022.

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Matthew V. Novenson, PhD (2010), Princeton Theological Seminary, is Senior Lecturer in New Testament and Christian Origins at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author, most recently, of The Grammar of Messianism (OUP, 2017). Contributors are Richard Bauckham, Jan N. Bremmer, David B. Capes, April D. DeConick, Paula Fredriksen, Jörg Frey, Charles A. Gieschen, Larry W. Hurtado, Carey C. Newman, Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr, Matthew V. Novenson, Pheme Perkins.

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