Israel`s God and Rebecca`s Children Christology and Community in Early Judaism and Christianity: Essays in Honor of Larry W.Hurtado and Alan F.Segal

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PART I: RECONCEPTUALIZING CHRISTOLOGY AND COMMUNITY 1 How We Talk about Christology Matters 1 April D. DeConick 2 Mandatory Retirement: Ideas in the Study of Christian 25 Origins Whose Time Has Come to Go Paula Fredriksen 3 The "Most High" God and the Nature of Early Jewish Monotheism 39 Richard Bauckham 4 "How on Earth Did Jesus Become a God?": A Reply 55 Adela Yarbro Collins 5 Resurrection and Christology: Are They Related? 67 Pheme Perkins 6 Are Early New Testament Manuscripts Truly Abundant? 77 Eldon Jay Epp PART II: STUDIES IN CHRISTOLOGY 7 Prophetic Identity and Conflict in the Historic Ministry of Jesus 121 Maurice Casey 8 Pauline Exegesis and the Incarnate Christ 135 David B. Capes 9 Christophany as a Sign of "the End" 155 Carey C. Newman 10 When Did the Understanding of Jesus` Death as an Atoning Sacrifice First Emerge? 169 James D. G. Dunn 11 Discarding the Seamless Robe: The High Priesthood of Jesus in John`s Gospel 183 Helen K. Bond 12 Remembering and Revelation: The Historic and Glorified Jesus in the Gospel of John 195 Larry W. Hurtado 13 Jesus: "The One Who Sees God" 215 Marianne Meye Thompson 14 The Lamb (Not the Man) on the Divine Throne 227 Charles A. Gieschen PART III: STUDIES IN COMMUNITY 15 The Promise of the Spirit of Life in the Book of Ezekiel 247 John R. Levison 16 Sadducees, Zadokites, and the Wisdom of Ben Sira 261 Jonathan Klawans 17 On the Changing Significance of the Sacred 277 Rachel Elior 18 Vespasian, Nerva, Jesus, and Fiscus Judaicus 303 Paul Foster 19 Paul`s Religious Experience in the Eyes of Jewish Scholars 321 Alan F. Segal 20 Liturgy and Communal Identity: Hellenistic Synagogal Prayer 5 and the Character of Early Syrian Christianity 345 Troy A. Miller 21 Anger, Reconciliation, and Friendship in Matthew 5:21-26 359 John T. Fitzgerald