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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

Israel's God and Rebecca's Children is a collection of essays written as a tribute to the lasting scholarship and friendship of Larry Hurtado (University of Edinburgh) and Alan Segal (Barnard College), two scholars who have contributed significantly to the contemporary understanding of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity. Their colleagues and friends examine a wide range of topics that have been the focus of Hurtado and Segal's research, including Christology, community, Jewish-Christian relations, soteriology and the development of early Christianity. Together these essa
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Introduction Larry Hurtado, Alan F. Segal PART ONE: RECONCEPTUALIZING CHRISTOLOGY AND COMMUNITY 1 How We Talk About Christology Matters, April 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 TWO: 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 Gieschen PART THREE: 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 Miller 21 Anger, Reconcilliation, and Friendship in Matthew 5:21-26, John T. Fitzgerald List of Contributors