One God, One Lord Early Christian Devotion and Ancient Jewish Monotheism

by Hurtado, Larry W.

• ISBN13: 9780567657718
• ISBN10: 056765771X
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-11-19
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark

Summary

Larry Hurtado's One God, One Lord has been described as 'one of the most important and provocative Christologies of all time' (Alan F. Segal). The book has taken its place among works on Jesus as one consistently cited, consistently read, and consistently examined in scholarly discourse.

Hurtado examines the early cultic devotion to Jesus through a range of Jewish sources. Hurtado outlines an early 'high' Christological theology, showing how the Christ of faith emerges from monotheistic Judaism. The book has already found a home on the shelves of many in its two previous editions. In this new Cornerstones edition Hurtado provides a substantial epilogue of some twenty-thousand words, which brings this ground-breaking work to the fore once more, in a format accessible to scholars and students alike.

Author Biography

Larry W. Hurtado is Professor Emeritus of New Testament Language and Literature at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Table of Contents

Preface
Abbreviations

Introduction
1. The Problem
2. Early Christology and Chronology
3. Excursus
4. Complexity in Ancient Judaism
5. The Historical Approach
6. Excursus
7. One God and Devotion to Jesus

Ch. 1: Divine Agency in Ancient Jewish Monotheism
1. Divine Agency Speculation
2. The Shape of Postexilic Jewish Religious Devotion
3. Angelology and Monotheism
4. Monotheism and Other Divine Agents
5. Summary

Ch. 2: Personified Divine Attributes as Divine Agents
1. Personified Divine Attributes
2. The Language of Divine Agency

Ch. 3: Exalted Patriarchs as Divine Agents
1. Enoch Speculations
2. Exalted Moses Traditions
3. Other Exalted Patriarchs
4. Exalted Patriarchs and Jewish Religious Devotion

Ch. 4: Principal Angels
1. Angelology and Christology in Previous Studies
2. Principal Angels in Ancient Judaism
3. Chief Angels and God
4. Summary

Ch. 5: The Early Christian Mutation
1. Jesus as God's Chief Agent
2. The Christian Mutation
3. Causes of the Christian Mutation
4. Summary

Conclusions
Notes
Index of Ancient Sources
Index of Authors