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The Jewish roots of christological monotheism : papers from the St. Andrews Conference on the Historical Origins of the Worship of Jesus

This volume investigates the Jewish cultural matrix that gave rise to the veneration of Jesus in the early Christianity. Specifically, this study examines Christian origins, the context of Jewish monotheism, Jewish divine mediator figures and the Christian practice of worshipping Jesus.
Print Book, English, 1999
Brill, Leiden, 1999
Conference papers and proceedings
xi, 373 pages ; 25 cm.
9789004113619, 9004113614
42296061
Introduction. Of methodology, monotheism and metatron: introductory reflections on divine mediators and the origins of the worship of Jesus / James R. Davila
Monotheism. Concepts of Jewish monotheism in the Hellenistic period / Michael Mach
The throne of God and the worship of Jesus / Richard Bauckham
Worship and monotheism in the Ascension of Isaiah / Loren T. Stuckenbruck
Mediation. The high priest and the worship of Jesus / Margaret Barker
The worship of divine humanity as God's image and the worship of Jesus / Crispin H.T. Fletcher-Louis
Melchizedek and Jesus: 11Q Melchizedek and the Epistle to the Hebrews / Anders Aschim
Astonishment in the firmament: the worship of Jesus and soteriology in Ignatius and the Ascension of Isaiah / Robert G. Hall
The grammar of exorcism in the ancient Mediterranean world: some cosmological, semantic, and pragmatic reflections on how exorcistic prowess contributed to the worship of Jesus / Todd E. Klutz
Identification with the Savior in Coptic texts from Nag Hammadi / Pheme Perkins
Veneration. The binitarian shape of early Christian worship / Larry W. Hurtado
Monotheism, worship and christological developments in the Pauline churches / P.M. Casey
The worship of Jesus and the imperial cult / Adela Yarbro Collins
Paul's "Soma Pneumatikon" and the worship of Jesus / Alan F. Segal
Singing hymns to Christ as to a god (cf. Pliny Ep. X, 96) / Margaret Daly-Denton
Imitatio Christi and the early worship of Jesus / David Capes
Heavenly temple traditions and Valentinian worship: a case for first-century christology in the second century / April D. de Conick