One God, One Lord

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

Professor Hurtado traces the rise of ideas of Christ's divinity to Jewish sources. He shows that Christians naturally relied on Jewish concepts of a principal angelic helper to God to understand the meaning of Jesus' mission ... Christians worshipped their mediator figure, thus ensuring an eventual break with Judaism ... one of the most interesting Christologies of the decade.

• Preface AbbreviationsIntroduction1. The Problem2. Early Christology and Chronology3. Excursus4. Complexity in Ancient Judaism5. The Historical Approach6. Excursus7. One God and Devotion to JesusCh. 1: Divine Agency in Ancient Jewish Monotheism1. Divine Agency Speculation2. The Shape of Postexilic Jewish Religious Devotion3. Angelology and Monotheism4. Monotheism and Other Divine Agents5. SummaryCh. 2: Personified Divine Attributes as Divine Agents1. Personified Divine Attributes2. The Language of Divine AgencyCh. 3: Exalted Patriarchs as Divine Agents1. Enoch Speculations2. Exalted Moses Traditions3. Other Exalted Patriarchs4. Exalted Patriarchs and Jewish Religious DevotionCh. 4: Principal Angels1. Angelology and Christology in Previous Studies2. Principal Angels in Ancient Judaism3. Chief Angels and God4. SummaryCh. 5: The Early Christian Mutation1. Jesus as God's Chief Agent2. The Christian Mutation3. Causes of the Christian Mutation4. SummaryConclusionsNotesIndex of Ancient SourcesIndex of Authors