Introduction
Larry W. Hurtado
Alan F. Segal
PART I: RECONCEPTUALIZING CHRISTOLOGY AND COMMUNITY
1 How We Talk about Christology Matters
April D. DeConick
2 Mandatory Retirement: Ideas in the Study of Christian Origins Whose Time Has Come to Go
Paula Fredriksen
3 The “Most High” God and the Nature of Early Jewish Monotheism
Richard Bauckham
4 “How on Earth Did Jesus Become a God?”: A Reply
Adela Yarbro Collins
5 Resurrection and Christology: Are They Related?
Pheme Perkins
6 Are Early New Testament Manuscripts Truly Abundant?
Eldon Jay Epp
PART II: STUDIES IN CHRISTOLOGY
7 Prophetic Identity and Conflict in the Historic Ministry of Jesus
Maurice Casey
8 Pauline Exegesis and the Incarnate Christ
David B. Capes
9 Christophany as a Sign of “the End”
Carey C. Newman
10 When Did the Understanding of Jesus’ Death as an Atoning Sacrifice First Emerge?
James D. G. Dunn
11 Discarding the Seamless Robe: The High Priesthood of Jesus in John’s Gospel
Helen K. Bond
12 Remembering and Revelation: The Historic and Glorified Jesus in the Gospel of John
Larry W. Hurtado
13 Jesus: “The One Who Sees God”
Marianne Meye Thompson
14 The Lamb (Not the Man) on the Divine Throne
Charles A. Gieschen
PART III: STUDIES IN COMMUNITY
15 The Promise of the Spirit of Life in the Book of Ezekiel
John R. Levison
16 Sadducees, Zadokites, and the Wisdom of Ben Sira
Jonathan Klawans
17 On the Changing Significance of the Sacred
Rachel Elior
18 Vespasian, Nerva, Jesus, and Fiscus Judaicus
Paul Foster
19 Paul’s Religious Experience in the Eyes of Jewish Scholars
Alan F. Segal
20 Liturgy and Communal Identity: Hellenistic Synagogal Prayer 5 and the Character of Early Syrian Christianity
Troy A. Miller
21 Anger, Reconciliation, and Friendship in Matthew 5:21-26
John T. Fitzgerald
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